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Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Happiness and Maximization: An Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Is More Always Better? The American Experiment
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    Chapter 3 More Nonsense and Less Happiness: The Uninteded Effects of Artificial Competitions
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    Chapter 4 Happiness by Maximization?
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    Chapter 5 Maximization and the Good
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    Chapter 6 How Wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, Optimization and Short-Sighted Resource Use in Biological Evolution
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    Chapter 7 Towards a Neuroscience of Well-Being: Implications of Insights from Pleasure Research
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    Chapter 8 From Treating Mental Dysfunction to Neuroenhancement
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    Chapter 9 Do Aspirations and Adaptation Impede the Maximization of Happiness?
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    Chapter 10 My Car is Bigger than Yours: Consumption, Status Competition, and Happiness in Times of Affluence
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    Chapter 11 Some Lessons from Happiness Economics for Environmental Sustainability
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    Chapter 12 Public Policy and Human Happiness: The Welfare State and the Market as Agents of Well-Being
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    Chapter 13 Should the State Care for the Happiness of its Citizens?
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    Chapter 14 A “Happiness Test” for the New Measures of National Well-Being: How Much Better than GDP are They?
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Chapter title
More Nonsense and Less Happiness: The Uninteded Effects of Artificial Competitions
Chapter number 3
Book title
Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6609-9_3
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-076608-2, 978-9-40-076609-9
Authors

Mathias Binswanger, Binswanger, Mathias

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