Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization: Is More by Hilke Brockmann,Jan Delhey

By Hilke Brockmann,Jan Delhey

This booklet assessments the serious capability of happiness study to guage modern high-performance societies. those societies, outlined as prosperous capitalist societies, emphasize festival and luck either  institutionally and culturally. transforming into affluence improves lifestyles in lots of methods, for a lot of humans. We lead longer, more secure, and more well-off lives than prior generations. yet we additionally stay quicker, and are competition-toughened, like best athletes. for that reason, we suspect limits and notice downsides of our high-speed lives. the ever-present maximization precept opens up a scientific gateway to the pleasures and pains of latest lifestyles. utilizing happiness as a reference element, this ebook explores the philosophical and empirical limits of the maximization rule. It considers the reply to questions reminiscent of: accurately, why did the assumption of (economic) maximization achieve rather a lot flooring in our Western mind set? while, and during which existence domain names, does maximization paintings, while does it fail? while do characteristics and while do amounts topic? Does maximization yield a unique (un)happiness dividend in several species, cultures, and societies? ​  

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