The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness

by Alastair Campbell

Book Overview

Are you happy? Does it matter?

Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political theories, he questions how happiness can survive in a grossly negative media culture, and how it could inform social policy.

But happiness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099579820
• ISBN13: 9780099579823
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 96 Pages