The happiness industry: How government and big business sold us well-being

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Human well‐being and climate change mitigation (2017, background): “A current trend is to reconstitute the political framing of well-being in hedonic terms, but this does little to address the fundamental distributional concerns revealed by eudaimonic research and indeed obstructs socio-economic reform.(147) A research agenda for fostering universal well-being withi”
From Psychological Science to the Psychological Humanities: Building a General Theory of Subjectivity (2017, background): “Critical histories have shown how a happy subjectivity, emphasizing particular aspects of human mental life, goes hand in hand with a political economy and, more recently, with neo-liberalism (Davies, 2015).”