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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More Nonsense and Less Happiness: The Uninteded Effects of Artificial Competitions,e needs of consumers, as this maximizes their profits. But in artificial competitions without markets people’s needs do not matter. Instead, these competitions induce providers to maximize some measurable outcome, which nobody ever demanded.

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Happiness by Maximization?,ife to a longer one, less justice to more. What could be wrong with that? Nevertheless, it will be argued in this chapter that a general tendency to maximising the outcomes of one’s actions is not conducive to one’s happiness and, therefore, not rational. Furthermore, some of the reasons why this is the case will be considered.

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Should the State Care for the Happiness of its Citizens?,re is no clear-cut ideal form of the welfare state which could be justified by happiness research. The second answer is more optimistic since it might be feasible to employ the principles of soft paternalism within the framework of a so-called avuncular state to improve the institutional design of the welfare state.

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