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Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization
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Editor(s):
Hilke Brockmann
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Jan Delhey
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2013
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Springer Netherlands
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978-94-007-6608-2
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978-94-007-6609-9
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2013
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10.1007/978-94-007-6609-9
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Book chapters
pp. 1
Happiness and Maximization: An Introduction
pp. 15
Is More Always Better? The American Experiment
pp. 27
More Nonsense and Less Happiness: The Uninteded Effects of Artificial Competitions
pp. 41
Happiness by Maximization?
pp. 55
Maximization and the Good
pp. 69
How Wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, Optimization and Short-Sighted Resource Use in Biological Evolution
pp. 81
Towards a Neuroscience of Well-Being: Implications of Insights from Pleasure Research
pp. 101
From Treating Mental Dysfunction to Neuroenhancement
pp. 115
Do Aspirations and Adaptation Impede the Maximization of Happiness?
pp. 131
My Car is Bigger than Yours: Consumption, Status Competition, and Happiness in Times of Affluence
pp. 149
Some Lessons from Happiness Economics for Environmental Sustainability
pp. 163
Public Policy and Human Happiness: The Welfare State and the Market as Agents of Well-Being
pp. 177
Should the State Care for the Happiness of its Citizens?
pp. 191
A “Happiness Test” for the New Measures of National Well-Being: How Much Better than GDP are They?
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