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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957245603321

Autore

Burnett Simon <1981->

Titolo

The Happiness Agenda : A Modern Obsession / / by S. Burnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

9786613360519

9781283360517

1283360519

9780230348417

0230348416

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Classificazione

BUS085000BUS097000PSY021000SOC026000

Disciplina

302/.1

Soggetti

Personnel management

Strategic planning

Leadership

Experimental economics

Sociology

Psychology, Industrial

Human Resource Management

Business Strategy and Leadership

Experimental Economics

Work and Organizational Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Modern myths; Pursuing happiness; 1 The happy adventures of capital; The culture of capital: an overview; A reflexive complexity; The power of subjects and objects; (Too) fast subjects; The cultural circuits of happiness; 2 A happy policy; An ancient problem, and its modern fix; The utility of happiness; The utility of Utility; Historians repeat each other, history repeats itself; The political need for happiness; 3 Happiness loves company; Theoretical origins; A modern-day assumption; Happy workers?



Champions of the new human relations4 Positively happy; The Manhattan Project; Principles of positivity; Historical and conceptual origins; A mainstream counter-culture; 5 Happy days; Knowing happiness; The happy death of god; 6 Happiness needs practice; 7 Happy ever after?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 coordination' between political, organisational and psychological developments.