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Preface: on happiness, rationality and empathy in scholarship and policy
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Neil Thin
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and boxes vi
- About the author vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Preface: on happiness, rationality and empathy in scholarship and policy ix
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Happiness in policy discourse and research
- Introduction: prosperity debates and the happiness lens 3
- What really matters: concepts, evaluations and objections 33
- Effects of happiness (and unhappiness) 49
- Thinking ourselves happy: on the policy relevance of both subjectivity and objectivity 59
- Who makes happiness happen? On emotion work and psychosocial contagion 69
- Governance and responsibility: towards the eudaimonic state? 81
- Assessing happiness: measurement and beyond 91
- Correlations and causal theories 107
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Social happiness in policy and practice
- Love: fighting philophobia around the world 119
- The shape of good hope: cultivating reasonable aspirations 135
- Positive parenting and cheerful childlessness 149
- Schooling for joy 165
- New gender agendas: feel-good feminism for fun and fulfilment 183
- Working for happiness, happily working, and work–life harmony 195
- Shopping for happiness: corporate happwash and consumption ethics 211
- Geronto-eudaimonics: late-life thriving for all 223
- Conclusions: review and prospects 235
- References 247
- Index 293
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and boxes vi
- About the author vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Preface: on happiness, rationality and empathy in scholarship and policy ix
-
Happiness in policy discourse and research
- Introduction: prosperity debates and the happiness lens 3
- What really matters: concepts, evaluations and objections 33
- Effects of happiness (and unhappiness) 49
- Thinking ourselves happy: on the policy relevance of both subjectivity and objectivity 59
- Who makes happiness happen? On emotion work and psychosocial contagion 69
- Governance and responsibility: towards the eudaimonic state? 81
- Assessing happiness: measurement and beyond 91
- Correlations and causal theories 107
-
Social happiness in policy and practice
- Love: fighting philophobia around the world 119
- The shape of good hope: cultivating reasonable aspirations 135
- Positive parenting and cheerful childlessness 149
- Schooling for joy 165
- New gender agendas: feel-good feminism for fun and fulfilment 183
- Working for happiness, happily working, and work–life harmony 195
- Shopping for happiness: corporate happwash and consumption ethics 211
- Geronto-eudaimonics: late-life thriving for all 223
- Conclusions: review and prospects 235
- References 247
- Index 293