The happiness agenda : a modern obsession / / Simon Burnett |
Autore | Burnett Simon <1981-> |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
Disciplina | 302/.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Happiness
Happiness - United States |
ISBN |
9780230348417
1-283-36051-9 9786613360519 0-230-34841-6 |
Classificazione | BUS085000BUS097000PSY021000SOC026000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
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Burnett Simon <1981->
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Lurching toward happiness in America / / Claude Fischer |
Autore | Fischer Claude S. <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (148 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Collana | Boston Review Book |
Soggetto topico |
Quality of life - United States
Happiness - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-262-32289-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463812603321 |
Fischer Claude S. <1948->
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Lurching toward happiness in America / / Claude Fischer |
Autore | Fischer Claude S. <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (148 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Collana | Boston Review Book |
Soggetto topico |
Quality of life - United States
Happiness - United States |
ISBN | 0-262-32289-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788077503321 |
Fischer Claude S. <1948->
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 | ||
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Lurching toward happiness in America / / Claude Fischer |
Autore | Fischer Claude S. <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (148 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Collana | Boston Review Book |
Soggetto topico |
Quality of life - United States
Happiness - United States |
ISBN | 0-262-32289-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809502403321 |
Fischer Claude S. <1948->
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The politics of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : what government can learn from the new research on well-being / / Derek Bok |
Autore | Bok Derek Curtis |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Well-being - United States
Well-being - Research - United States Quality of life - United States Quality of life - Research - United States Happiness - United States Happiness - Research - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-45875-2
9786612458750 1-4008-3219-5 |
Classificazione | CW 6760 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. What Investigators Have Discovered -- 2. The Reliability of Research on Happiness -- 3. Should Policy-Makers Use Happiness Research? -- 4. The Question of Growth -- 5. What to Do about Inequality -- 6. The Threat of Financial Hardship -- 7. Relieving Suffering -- 8. Marriages and Families -- 9. Education -- 10. The Quality of Government -- 11. The Significance of Happiness Research -- Notes -- Index |
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The politics of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : what government can learn from the new research on well-being / / Derek Bok |
Autore | Bok Derek Curtis |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Well-being - United States
Well-being - Research - United States Quality of life - United States Quality of life - Research - United States Happiness - United States Happiness - Research - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-45875-2
9786612458750 1-4008-3219-5 |
Classificazione | CW 6760 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. What Investigators Have Discovered -- 2. The Reliability of Research on Happiness -- 3. Should Policy-Makers Use Happiness Research? -- 4. The Question of Growth -- 5. What to Do about Inequality -- 6. The Threat of Financial Hardship -- 7. Relieving Suffering -- 8. Marriages and Families -- 9. Education -- 10. The Quality of Government -- 11. The Significance of Happiness Research -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780861103321 |
Bok Derek Curtis
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010 | ||
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The politics of happiness : what government can learn from the new research on well-being / / Derek Bok |
Autore | Bok Derek Curtis |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Well-being - United States
Well-being - Research - United States Quality of life - United States Quality of life - Research - United States Happiness - United States Happiness - Research - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-45875-2
9786612458750 1-4008-3219-5 |
Classificazione | CW 6760 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. What Investigators Have Discovered -- 2. The Reliability of Research on Happiness -- 3. Should Policy-Makers Use Happiness Research? -- 4. The Question of Growth -- 5. What to Do about Inequality -- 6. The Threat of Financial Hardship -- 7. Relieving Suffering -- 8. Marriages and Families -- 9. Education -- 10. The Quality of Government -- 11. The Significance of Happiness Research -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819579403321 |
Bok Derek Curtis
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Using new metrics to assess the role of the arts in well-being : some initial results from the economics of happiness / / Carol Graham, Soumya Chattopadhyay, and Jai Roberto Lakhanpal |
Autore | Graham Carol |
Edizione | [Working paper.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.]. : , : National Endowment for the Arts, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (17 pages) |
Soggetto topico |
Psychology and art
Happiness - United States Well-being - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Using new metrics to assess the role of the arts in well-being |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910716832703321 |
Graham Carol
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[Washington, D.C.]. : , : National Endowment for the Arts, , 2014 | ||
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