The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

by William Davies

Book Overview

"Deeply researched and pithily argued." --New York Magazine

"A brilliant, and sometimes eerie, dissection" of 'the science of happiness' and the modern-day commercialization of our most private emotions (Vice)

Why are we so obsessed with measuring happiness?

In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781688451
• ISBN13: 9781781688458
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"