“But isn’t that what the psychologists do?”: the dangers of disciplinary...
To respond to this particular crisis of measure, economics and psychology are being forcibly re-married. Behavioural and experimental economics have their earliest origins in game theory in the 1940s,...
View ArticleWilliam Davies –‘The Revenge of the Social’
William Davies (University of Warwick) speaking on ‘The Revenge of the Social’ at the ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’ conference organised by Nicholas Gane and Claire Westall at the...
View ArticleThe Politics of Happiness and the Purpose of the Social Sciences: an...
An interview with Will Davies about his new book The Happiness Industry and the many issues addressed within it:
View ArticleHow else to know people?
This is an extract from The Happiness Industry by William Davies. If you find it interesting then you’ll like this podcast. Psychology and social science are perfectly possible, under the sorts of...
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The Happy Forecast and the quantification of emotion
A new project has just been launched which aims at quantifiying and comparing the happiness of different areas of London. The Happy Forecast purports to offer an answer to the question “Which areas of...
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