Don’t join a union, pop a pill
Katrina Forrester: ‘The Happiness Industry’, 22 October 2015
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing
by William Davies.
Verso, 314 pp., £16.99, May 2015,978 1 78168 845 8 Show More
by William Davies.
Verso, 314 pp., £16.99, May 2015,
“... The 18th-century forebears of utilitarianism and classical political economy like Hume and Adam Smith had doubted that we could understand much about other people, but didn’t think that that mattered much. Common psychological characteristics could be assumed, and social conventions and rules of exchange would serve to co-ordinate human behaviour and ... ”