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The loss of happiness in market democracies /

"Drawing on extensive research in such fields as quality of life, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, and biology, Robert E. Lane presents a challenging thesis. He shows that the main sources of well-being in advanced economies are friendships and a good family life and that, once one i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lane, Robert E., 1917-2017 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
Colección:Yale ISPS series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Shadow on the land
  • 2. Unhappiness in our time
  • 3. Happiness as an endowment : evolution, the fall from grace, and devalued children
  • Why money doesn't buy happiness for most of us
  • 5. Companionship or income?
  • 6. Searching for lost companions in market democracies
  • Appendix to Chapter 6. Community characteristics by size of place
  • 7. Gaining felicity while losing income?
  • 8. Materialism in market democracies
  • 9. Is well-being a market externality?
  • 10. Pain and loneliness in a consumers' paradise
  • 11. Rising malaise at democracy's feast
  • 12. Do democratic processes contribute to ill-being?
  • 13. The pain of self-determination in democracy
  • 14. Companionate democracy
  • 15. Political theory of well-being
  • 16. Are people the best judges of their own well-being?
  • 17. Self-inspired pain
  • 18. The way home
  • Appendix. Measures of well-being and depression.