The Happiness agenda is a unique, timely and relevant investigation into the Anglo-American obsession with being happy. It is presently evident across the realms of: employment policies, management consultancy advice, governmental debates and mandates, news stories, television f…
This book explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex "conspiracy of coord…
This study of the 'Eclogues' focusses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ('eudaimonia') - ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of émigré Epicurean teachers and their …
Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements and failures to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term well-being.
Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements and failures to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term well-being.
Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements and failures to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such events is perhaps the greatest threat to our long-term well-being.
Was haben Analsex, das iPad und Barack Obama gemeinsam? Sie sind Produkte von Nextopia: der Erwartungsgesellschaft. Sie ist unsere Zukunft. Leben, Glück und Geld - nichts bleibt in ihr, wie es war! Das nächste Smartphone, der nächste Partner, der nächste Job: Es kommt immer etwa…
Was haben Analsex, das iPad und Barack Obama gemeinsam? Sie sind Produkte von Nextopia: der Erwartungsgesellschaft. Sie ist unsere Zukunft. Leben, Glück und Geld - nichts bleibt in ihr, wie es war! Das nächste Smartphone, der nächste Partner, der nächste Job: Es kommt immer etwa…
Economists are increasingly using happiness surveys to study a host of questions, ranging from the happiness effects of health and marriage to the unhappiness effects of unemployment, divorce, and even commuting time. Carol Graham was a pioneer in the economic study of happiness…
"Focuses on the role in the policymaking process of new metrics for measuring the effects on individual well-being of institutional, macroeconomic, and policy environments--for example, the effects of macroeconomic uncertainty and lack of access to health insurance--as well as t…
