The Joyless Economy
The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
1st Edition
Published on 26. March 1992
353 pages
978-0-19-802378-4 (ISBN)
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Originally published in 1976, this work attempted to establish the legitimacy of understanding economic behaviour in psychological terms. This revised edition stresses the fact that economic abundance does not necessarily lead to satisfaction, and includes new material on contemporary applications.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Chapter One: Introduction: Plutocracy and Mob Rule
- PART I: THE PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF MOTIVATION
- Chapter Two: Between Strain and Boredom
- Arousal
- Personality
- Arousal Reduction
- Chapter Three: The Pursuit of Novelty
- Physical Stimulation
- Mental Stimulation
- Some of the Evidence
- Threat
- Measurement
- Attention
- Redundancy
- Signs and Supersigns
- Uncertainty
- Chapter Four: Comfort Versus Pleasure
- The Seduction of Pleasure
- The Seduction of Comfort
- Free Choice Between Comfort and Pleasure
- Comfort and Stimulation
- Chapter Five: Enter Economics
- Self-Sufficiency
- Mutual Stimulation
- Market Goods and Services
- External Benefits and External Nuisances
- Non-Market Goods and Services
- Work as Self-Stimulation
- The Importance of the Economic Product
- Chapter Six: Necessities and Comforts
- Necessities and Luxuries
- Defensive and Creative Products
- Some of the Comforts
- The Comfort of Belonging
- The Comfort of Being Useful
- The Comfort of Sticking to Our Habits
- What it Means to Become Spoiled
- Chapter Seven: Income and Happiness
- Rankhappiness
- Whatever Made Us Believe Income Yields Happiness?
- PART II: THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
- Chapter Eight: Is Our Life Too Good?
- The Economy of Effort
- The Economy of Time
- The Purchase of Health
- The Economy of Care and Bother
- Chapter Nine: Is Our Life Too Dull?
- Food
- Vacations
- Company
- A Conflict
- Chapter Ten: Our Puritan Ghost
- The Moral Superiority of Production and Money-Making
- The Neglect of Housekeeping
- Puritan Intolerance
- Chapter Eleven: Our Disdain for Culture
- The Meaning of Culture
- The Puritan Attitude Toward Culture
- Production Skills Versus Consumption Skills
- The Rational Bias Against Culture
- Skilled Versus Unskilled Stimulus Enjoyment
- The Art of Conversation
- What Do You Know?
- Chapter Twelve: What's Wrong with Mass Production?
- The Monotony of Products
- The Banalization of Art
- Chapter Thirteen: What's Wrong with Specialization?
- The Decline of the Generalist
- Producers' Choice
- Artists' Choice
- Decorating
- Tourism
- Chapter Fourteen: The End of Sexism and Revival of the Generalist?
- Do It Yourself
- Women's Liberation
- Where Do We Stand?
- Appendix: Culture Is a Good Thing
- Notes
- Index
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- D
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