{"product_id":"happiness-industry-how-the-government-and-big-business-sold-us-well-being","title":"Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHappiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Davies\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781784780951\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVerso\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Deeply researched and pithily argued.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant, and sometimes eerie, dissection\" of 'the science of happiness' and the modern-day commercialization of our most private emotions (\u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy are we so obsessed with measuring happiness?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new religion dedicated to well-being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, 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. From a history of business strategies of how to get the best out of employees, to the increased level of surveillance measuring every aspect of our lives; from why experts prefer to measure the chemical in the brain than ask you how you are feeling, to why \u003ci\u003eFreakonomics\u003c\/i\u003e tells us less about the way people behave than expected, \u003ci\u003eThe Happiness Industry \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential guide to the marketization of modern life. Davies shows that the science of happiness is less a science than an extension of hyper-capitalism.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being | William Davies | Paperback | 9781784780951 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1775952","offer_id":50758126469378,"sku":"1775952","price":18.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51J5oNUEqbL.jpg?v=1792037632","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/happiness-industry-how-the-government-and-big-business-sold-us-well-being","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}