Download or read book The Happiness Agenda written by S. Burnett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex 'conspiracy of coordination' between political, organisational and psychological developments.