Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization Is More Always Better? /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Brockmann, Hilke (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Delhey, Jan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Happiness Studies Book Series,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Behavioral sciences.; Macroeconomics.; Quality of life.; Positive psychology.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Positive Psychology.; Behavioral Sciences.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies. These societies, defined as affluent capitalist societies, emphasize competition and success both  institutionally and culturally. Growing affluence improves life in many ways, for a lar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Is More Always Better? An Introduction; Hilke Brockmann and Jan Delhey
• Chapter 2. When the Pursuit of More Backfires - The American Experiment; Peter Whybrow
• Chapter 3. More Nonsense and Less Happiness: The Unintended Effects of Artificial Competitions; Mathias Binswanger
• Chapter 4. Happiness by Maximization?; Kurt Bayertz
• Chapter 5. Maximization and the Good; Valerie Tiberius
• Chapter 6. How Wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, Optimization and Short-Sighted Resource Use in Biological Evolution; Hanna Kokko
• Chapter 7. Towards a Neuroscience of Well-being – Implications of Insights from Pleasure Research; Kent C. Berridge and Morten L. Kringelbach
• Chapter 8. From Treating Mental Dysfunction to Neuroenhancement; Michael Koch
• Chapter 9. Do Aspirations and Adaptation Impede the Maximization of Happiness?; Ulrich Schimmack and Hyunji Kim
• Chapter 10. My Car is Bigger than Yours. Consumption, Status Competition, and Happiness in Times of Affluence; Hilke Brockmann and Song Yan
• Chapter 11. Some Lessons from Happiness Economics for Environmental Sustainability; Heinz Welsch
• Chapter 12. Public Policy and Human Happiness: The Welfare State and the Market as Agents of Well-Being; Robert Davidson, Alexander C. Pacek, and Benjamin Radcliff
• Chapter 13 Should the State Care for the Happiness of Its Citizens?; Aloys Prinz
• Chapter 14. A “Happiness Test” for the New Measures of National Well-Being: How Much Better than GDP are they?; Jan Delhey and Christian Kroll.