Articles by William Davies

• The Political Economy of Unhappiness
  • William Davies

  in NLR 71, September-October 2011, pp. 65-80
  Subjects: Social Theory , Economic Policy
  

  As the bill for mental health problems—iconically, depression—climbs, economists seek to quantify the efficiency costs of unhappiness. 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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