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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Yale ISPS series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.