Titlebook: Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization; Is More Always Bette Hilke Brockmann,Jan Delhey Book 2013 Springer Science+Business Media

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Is More Always Better? The American Experiment,ng standards has not made US–Americans any happier. On the contrary, obesity, anxiety, depression and other symptoms of ill-being are on the rise. This chapter identifies the root cause of these negative trends as a mismatch between evolved human behaviors and the novel habitat of material affluence

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Happiness by Maximization?,et alone a bad outcome. But what is ‘the best’? Obviously it is something that has to be characterised qualitatively: in terms of pleasure or altruism, for example. But in order to be ‘the best’ it is seemingly not sufficient to do what is pleasurable or altruistic if we are in a position to do some

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How Wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, Optimization and Short-Sighted Resource Use in Biological More detailed analysis proves this to be wrong: for example, a too hard working kestrel parent would waste energy on offspring that are not good at surviving, at the expense of its own lifespan. Such reasoning explains why natural selection does not always favor maximally fierce performance in compe