-Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence.- - Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here
-A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life.- - Professor Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster
-In a world that seems to lurch from...
-Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence.- - Evgeny Morozov, author o...
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new religion dedicated to well-being. In this brilliant dissection of our times, political economist William Davies shows how this philosophy, first pronounced by Jeremy Bentham in the 1780s, has dominated the political debates that have delivered neoliberalism. From a history of business...
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all...
A dazzlingly original analysis of how emotions shape the times we are living in by one of Britain's most exciting thinkers'A masterpiece' New York Times'Insightful and well-written' Yuval Noah Harari, author of SapiensHow have feelings come to shape the world around us?
A dazzlingly original analysis of how emotions shape the times we are living in by one of Britain's most exciting thinkers'A masterpiece' New York Tim...
