Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization Is More Always Better? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brockmann, Hilke. (Editor), Delhey, Jan. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Happiness Studies Book Series,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Quality of Life.; Animal behavior.; Finance.; Quality of Life > Research.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Positive Psychology.; Behavioural Sciences.; Financial Economics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6609-9

This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies. These societies, defined as affluent capitalist societies, emphasize competition and success both� institutionally and culturally. Growing affluence improves life in many ways, for a lar...

Table of 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.