Against happiness
Owen Flanagan
Bok · Bokmål · 2023
| Utgitt | New York : Columbia University Press , [2023]
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| Omfang | xxii, 345 sider
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| Opplysninger | It was hardly a surprise to philosophers or members of every religion in the world when economists announced in the 1970s that happiness was not correlated with rises in personal income or national GDP; their traditions had made this point for millennia. But it did prompt a response: the happiness agenda, a movement that endorses metrics indicating happiness and well-being as a guide to public policy, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network annual World Happiness Report. A surprising and unnerving 2021 Gallup report revealed that Americans are "thriving" at the highest levels ever measured-despite COVID, declining life expectancy, alarming rises in economic insecurity, political polarization, creeping authoritarianism, stress, and loneliness.
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| ISBN | 978-0-231-20949-6
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| Hylleplass | 306 F
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