TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 206 LP - 207 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X684661 VL - 66 IS - 645 AU - Adam Staten Y1 - 2016/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/645/206.2.abstract N2 - The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being William Davies Verso, 2015, HB, 320pp, £13.59, 978-1781688458We live in an era of unprecedented progress in the study of emotions and, in particular, of happiness. You might assume that this is a good thing but this fascinating book may well persuade you otherwise.For the last 200 years the study of happiness, or ‘well-being’ as it has come to be known, has been inextricably linked to the fields of economics and marketing, which … ER -