{"product_id":"the-happiness-industry-how-the-government-and-big-business-sold-us-well-being","title":"The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Deeply researched and pithily argued.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy are we so obsessed with measuring happiness?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Verso Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781781688458\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Davies, William","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.83","offer_id":47977663758513,"sku":"SB-1781688451-C3","price":1.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1781688451.jpg?v=1790373311","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-happiness-industry-how-the-government-and-big-business-sold-us-well-being","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}