Against happiness
"It was hardly a surprise to philosophers or members of every religion in the world when economists announced in the 1970s that happiness was not correlated with rises in personal income or national GDP; their traditions had made this point for millennia. But it did prompt a response: the happi...
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Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Happiness Philosophy and Happiness Science
- 1. Introduction: The Happiness Agenda
- 2. Varieties of Theories and Measures of Well-Being and Happiness
- 3. How Should We Think About the Emotion of Happiness Scientifically? Lessons from the Science of Fear
- 4. Why Averaging Happiness Scores and Comparing Them Is a Terrible Idea
- Part II: Culture and Happiness
- 5. Positive and Negative Emotions: Culture, Content, and Context
- 6. Happiness and Well-Being as Cultural Projects: Immigration, Biculturalism, Cultural Belonging
- 7. Happiness and Well-Being in Contemporary China
- Part III: Race, Racism, Resignation
- 8. Happiness, Race, and Hermeneutical Justice: The Case of African American Mental Health
- 9. Interpreting Self-Reports of Well-Being
- Part IV: Conclusions
- 10. Recommendations for Policy Use of Happiness Metrics
- 11. Universal Rights, Sustainable Development, and Happiness: Two out of Three Ain't Bad
- Part V: Responses by Four Critics
- 12. On Ersatz Happiness, by Jennifer A. Frey
- 13. Why the Analysis and Assessment of Happiness Matters, by Hazel Rose Markus
- 14. Three out of Three Is Better, by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- 15. What the Gallup World Poll Could Do to Deepen Our Understanding of Happiness in Different Cultures, by Jeanne L. Tsai
- Notes
- References
- Index.