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Title: Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization Is More Always Better? / edited by Hilke Brockmann, Jan Delhey.
Happiness Studies Book Series,
Happiness Studies Book Series,
Main Entry: Brockmann, Hilke. editor.
Delhey, Jan. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Date: 2013.
Publication Place: Dordrecht :
ISBN: 9789400766099
Subject: Social sciences.
Quality of life.
Animal behavior.
Finance.
Quality of life -- Research.
Social sciences.
Quality of Life Research.
Positive psychology.
Behavioural Sciences.
Financial economics.
Series: Happiness Studies Book Series,
Happiness Studies Book Series,
Contents: Chapter 1. Is More Always Better? An Introduction; Hilke Brockmann and Jan Delhey -- Chapter 2. When the Pursuit of More Backfires - The American Experiment; Peter Whybrow -- Chapter 3. More Nonsense and Less Happiness: The Unintended Effects of Artificial Competitions; Mathias Binswanger -- Chapter 4. Happiness by Maximization?; Kurt Bayertz -- Chapter 5. Maximization and the Good; Valerie Tiberius -- Chapter 6. How Wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, Optimization and Short-Sighted Resource Use in Biological Evolution; Hanna Kokko -- Chapter 7. Towards a Neuroscience of Well-being – Implications of Insights from Pleasure Research; Kent C. Berridge and Morten L. Kringelbach -- Chapter 8. From Treating Mental Dysfunction to Neuroenhancement; Michael Koch -- Chapter 9. Do Aspirations and Adaptation Impede the Maximization of Happiness?; Ulrich Schimmack and Hyunji Kim -- Chapter 10. My Car is Bigger than Yours. Consumption, Status Competition, and Happiness in Times of Affluence; Hilke Brockmann and Song Yan -- Chapter 11. Some Lessons from Happiness Economics for Environmental Sustainability; Heinz Welsch -- Chapter 12. Public Policy and Human Happiness: The Welfare State and the Market as Agents of Well-Being; Robert Davidson, Alexander C. Pacek, and Benjamin Radcliff -- Chapter 13 Should the State Care for the Happiness of Its Citizens?; Aloys Prinz -- Chapter 14. A “Happiness Test” for the New Measures of National Well-Being: How Much Better than GDP are they?; Jan Delhey and Christian Kroll.

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Printed edition: 9789400766082

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