The Political Economy of Unhappiness

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Publisher
New Left Review
Place of Publication
London
Date of Publication
September/October 2011 #71
Number of Pages
16
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III World capitalism, capitalist society and the left movements; socialist movements in general | J Workers´ movement, left movement, socialist movement | A Collected works
Notes
As the bill for mental health problems - iconically, depression - climbs, economists seek to quantify the efficiency costs of unhappyness. In such quests, capitalism is reverting to classical psychologies of well-being, the better to neutralize the meaning of the new forms of illness - and its authorship of them.
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