The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies

By R. Lane. 2000

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Greater Happiness for a Greater Number (2010, positive): “Lane (1996) made this distinction clear by emphasizing 'quality of persons'.”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “…been accompanied by increases in average well-being — for example, that Americans’ mean happiness scores shifted slightly from 7.5 (out of 10) in 1940 to 7.2 in 1990, a time period when incomes more than tripled (Lane, 2000 ) — have also been interpreted to indicate the work of hedonic adaptation.”
Is It Possible to Become Happier? (And If So, How?) (2007, background): “Another intriguing fact is that as countries become wealthier over time, their citizens’ happiness does not increase (Diener & Oishi, 2000; Lane, 2000).”
Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “As various assessments of wellbeing tell us, increased choice and increased affluence have been accompanied by decreased well-being (see Diener, 2000; Diener, Diener, & Diener, 1995; Diener & Suh, 2001; Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999; Inglehart, 1997; Lane, 2000; Myers, 2000).”
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A multi-national survey analysis in theoretical context (2012, background): “Finally, what makes the problems outlined above all the more troubling is the fact that high consumption lifestyles, so often held up as the peak of human development, are in many cases engendering an unexpected discontent or malaise among those who live them (Lane, 2000; Myers, 2000; Putnam, 2000; ”
The Easterlin illusion: economic growth does go with greater happiness (2014, background): “In this line Scitovski (1976) makes the case that mass-consumption does not really satisfy and Lane (2000) argues that the attendant culture of materialism tends to blind people to more solid sources of happiness.”
Why does income growth fail to make us happier?: Searching for the treadmills behind the paradox of happiness (2006, background): “For instance, they have a tendency to neglect the importance of social relations, although their future happiness may crucially depend on it (Bjørnskov, 2003; Lane, 2000, Chapter 6).”
Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “Lane, R. E. (2000). The loss of happiness in market democracies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Larsen, J. T., Hemenover, S. H., Norris, C. J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Turning adversity to advantage: On the virtues of the coactivation of positive and negative emotions.”
Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring (2007, background): “Such crucial but opaque topics such as freedom (Friedman, 1962; Sen, 2002), public interest (Goodin, 1996), or happiness and quality of life (Kahneman, Diener, & Schwarz, 1999; Lane, 2000) pose special problems; the very bedrock nature of these topics thwarts progress.”
Welfare Policy and Subjective Well-Being Across Nations: An Individual-Level Assessment (2008, methodology): “We include variables capturing simple demographics?such as gender, age, family ad marital status, income, and education?and social connectedness (Lane 2000).”
Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts (2007, background): “Lane (2000) has even suggested that, as Americans have pursued the aims of materialism and wealth, they have at the same time experienced “a kind of famine of warm interpersonal relations, of easy-to-reach neighbors, of encircling, inclusive memberships, and of solid family life” (p. 9).”
Capability and Happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links (2010, background): “Apparently there is ‘a loss of happiness’ in the educational system, comparable to the “Loss of happiness in market democracies” depicted by Lane (2000).”
Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox (2008, background): “Pollak (1976), Hirsch (1976), Scitovsky (1976), Frank (1985, 1999) and Clark and Oswald (1998), amongst others, as well as Veblen (1899) and Duesenberry (1949), have made related arguments.”