Titlebook: Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization; Is More Always Bette Hilke Brockmann,Jan Delhey Book 2013 Springer Science+Business Media

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Maximization and the Good,n includes more than happiness. The good is more plausibly thought of in pluralistic terms. Finally, I argue that pluralist theories of a person’s good make maximizing problematic because they do not provide a single target and, further, because they include items (such as friendship) that are not appropriately maximized.

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How Wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, Optimization and Short-Sighted Resource Use in Biological s case, exemplified by males competing to fertilize females’ eggs, selects for a mentality where no number of resource items gained (e.g., females fertilized) is ever enough. As a consequence, natural selection can favor shortsighted behaviors where the entire population does less well because individuals strive to outcompete each other.

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Do Aspirations and Adaptation Impede the Maximization of Happiness?,y and free nations is close to the maximum. To demonstrate further improvements, it is important to refine measures of happiness, establish a solid foundation of empirical findings, and develop theories that can explain these findings.

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Public Policy and Human Happiness: The Welfare State and the Market as Agents of Well-Being, increases as the level of state intervention in the market economy increases. The data suggest that maximizing the “decommodification” provided by the welfare state does indeed help to maximize human happiness. We conclude with a discussion of the practical and theoretical ramifications of these findings.

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Happiness and Maximization: An Introduction,ditional treatment harms the patient, and additional learning material frustrates the student. If you put the same question to an economist or a consumer, though, it is less clear what the answer will be.

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My Car is Bigger than Yours: Consumption, Status Competition, and Happiness in Times of Affluence,explain when consumption makes people unhappy and why unhappy consumers cannot easily stop their malconsumption. Researchers also identify escape routes both at the individual and the societal level. The chapter concludes with a discussion of institutional implications.

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Some Lessons from Happiness Economics for Environmental Sustainability,vered previously neglected channels through which the current styles of economic behavior affect environmental integrity and sustainability. Finally, the chapter briefly discusses the ways in which a better understanding of the factors and mechanisms underlying happiness may contribute to forming a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle.