THE HAPPINESS INDUSTRY:HOW THE GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS SOLD
Book ID/图书代码： 13850014B74396
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
In this brilliant dissection of our times, 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 Freakonomics tells us
less about the way people behave than expected, The Happiness Industry
is an essential guide to the marketization of modern life. Davies shows
that the science of happiness is less a science than an extension of hypercapitalism.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2014年冬天，世界各領導人聚集在瑞士達佛斯(Davos)，一位西藏喇嘛在此發表關於「快樂的重要性」的演講。最新《精神疾病診斷與統計手冊》(DSM-5)——心理疾病診斷手冊——第一次將害羞與悲傷列為可治療的疾病。快樂變成我們這個世代最重要的計畫，成為一種指向幸福的新信仰。政治經濟學家威廉．戴維斯以卓越的研究解剖我們的時代，他說明傑瑞米．邊沁(Jeremy Bentham) 首先發表於1780年代的哲學思想，如何引導政治性辯論發展成新自由主義。
商業策略如何取得員工最大工作效能，增加監視程度測量我們生活的每個層面？為何專家寧可測量腦中的化學物質，也不願直接問你的感受？為何《蘋果橘子經濟學》(Freakonomics) 描述人的舉止較少，描述人們預期會做的事較多？《快樂工業》是現代生活市場化重要的指南。戴維斯表示，快樂的科學與其說是門科學，不如說是過度資本主義的延伸。(Ramona)
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About the Author/作者介绍： "Dr Davies has a B.Sc in Psychology from University College London, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Birmingham, England. His PhD research was into violence in prisons. He is currently a consultant psychologist and Director of APT (the Association for Psychological Therapies). Dr Davies was previously the head of psychology at St Andrew’s Hospital in Northampton, England, and the first psychologist employed by the English Premier League."
Format:HARDCOVER
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