> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Alice Pearson <[email protected]> > Subject: CRASSH Economics and/or Wellbeing > Date: 28 January 2019 at 12:32:19 GMT > To: [email protected] > > Dear all, > > The next session of The Politics of Economics > <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-politics-of-economics>will be on > Tuesday February 5th at 12-2pm (note this is not the usual time). Will Davies > (Goldsmiths) and Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) will be discussing Economics > and/or Wellbeing (see abstract below). It will take place in the usual room, > SG1, Alison Richard building, Sidgwick site. > > The session will begin promptly at 12pm so please arrive on time to ensure a > seat. > > For the rest of the coming term, we are hosting the following sessions: > > - Tuesday Feb 19th, 17:15 - 18:45: Measurement of the Sustainable Development > Goals, Seminar Room SG1, Mary Morgan (LSE) > > - Tuesday Mar 5th, 17:15 - 18:45: Private Equity and the Balance of Twinkie > the Kid, Seminar Room SG1, Daniel Souleles (Copenhagen Business School) > > Best wishes, > > Alice Pearson, Raffaele Danna, Jostein Hauge, and Jack Wright > > > > Abstract: Economics and/or Wellbeing > > This seminar will bring together William Davies and Anna Alexandrova to > triangulate between three themes they have both worked on: tensions between > well-being and economic indicators in the rise of happiness economics; the > particularity (and ambiguity) of emerging conceptions of ‘well-being’; and > contemporary challenges to expertise. > > Within this, the speakers will focus on particular strands. Anna will discuss > how well-being science takes many forms, but that promoted by Clark et al in > their recent report and book ‘Origins of Happiness’ is striking for its > simplistic definition of well-being and mechanical vision of causality. > Meanwhile, William will consider how emerging digital methods of happiness > science seem to have a bias towards positivity. Feedback is increasingly in > terms of whether or not someone expressed positive affect, and not about > quantities of hedonia or negative affect. However, this is tied up with the > problem of how to capture affect in real-time, and what kind of knowledge is > being produced in these processes. There will then be space for discussion, > including to consider the ramifications for economics and expertise more > generally. > > Will Davies is a Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths. His work explores > how economics influences our understanding of politics, society and > ourselves. He is the author of three monographs: The Happiness Industry: How > the government & big business sold us wellbeing (2015), The Limits of > Neoliberalism: Authority, sovereignty & the logic of competition (2014) and > Nervous States: How feeling took over the world (2018). Anna Alexandrova is a > Reader in Philosophy of Science in Cambridge and Principle Investigator of > the Expertise Under Pressure project at CRASSH. She has written extensively > on the philosophy of wellbeing and of economics, and is author of the > monograph A Philosophy for the Science of Well-being (2017). > > > --- > > Alice Pearson > Doctoral Candidate | Department of Social Anthropology > Research Associate | Rebuilding Macroeconomics > Convener | CRASSH Politics of Economics Research Network > University of Cambridge > >
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