Overview
- The first volume to use interdisciplinary findings from happiness research to explain the downsides of modern society
- Examines the maxim that is necessarily better from a historical perspective
- Brings together leading happiness researchers from a broad range of backgrounds ?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Happiness Studies Book Series (HAPS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Consumptiom and Happiness
- Downsides of modern societies
- Economy and society
- Happiness and Maximization
- Happiness and Well-Being
- Happiness in different societies and cultures
- Maximization in Biological Evolution
- Measures of National Well-Being
- Mental health on high-speed lives
- Neuroscience of Well-Being
- Public Policy and Human Happiness
- State Care for Happiness of Its Citizens
- Treating Mental Dysfunction
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“This is an important book presenting clear evidence within the fields of philosophy, social, and natural science about the myth of maximization as the source of happiness. … Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization is an important contribution to the literature that encourages readers to look at maximization in its relation to happiness at the individual and social levels.” (Louis Hoffman and Monica Mansilla, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (17), 2014)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hilke Brockmann is a Professor of Sociology at Jacobs University, Bremen and an experienced expert in population aging and well-being research. Her work deals with the individual and health related consequences of large-scale demographic, political and social changes. She has published in major international journals, is a member of the Editorial Board of Health Sociology Review, of several professional associations and an alumni of the Max Planck Society. She also counsels public health insurances, marketing boards, firms, and political parties.
Jan Delhey, Professor of Sociology at Jacobs University, Bremen, is an internationally renowned expert in comparative quality of life research. He has published on living conditions, subjective well-being, trust, and social cohesion in leading European and international journals (his next piece of work on trust will appear in the American Sociological Review). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Happiness Studiesand member of the board of directors of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. For the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions he has worked as an expert advisor for European-wide social reporting. Contributor to the World Book of Happiness; numerous radio and newspaper interviews.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization
Book Subtitle: Is More Always Better?
Editors: Hilke Brockmann, Jan Delhey
Series Title: Happiness Studies Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6609-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6608-2Published: 23 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9959-2Published: 06 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6609-9Published: 09 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2213-7513
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 216
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Positive Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics