One of the great theorists of happiness in the 19th century was Jeremy Bentham. His theory was that whatever produced the greatest happiness for the greatest number was a call for democracy. Yet his approach to happiness was very individualistic – measuring increments of pain and pleasure in the individual. A less well known contemporary of Bentham, William Thompson attempted to socialize the meaning of happiness and connect it to the production of worker self-management.
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