The happiness industry : how the government and big business sold us well-being
Davies, William, 1976-2016
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In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new religion dedicated to well-being. In this dissection of our times, political economist William Davies shows how this philosophy, first pronounced by Jeremy Bentham in the 1780s, has dominated the political debates that have delivered neoliberalism.
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London : Verso, 2016.
Collation:
314 pages ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784780951 (pbk)1784780952 (pbk)9781781688465 (ebook)
Dewey class:
303.3 DAV303.3
LC class:
HM548
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English
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BRN:
311190