Can anyone pls recommend me an economics, philosophy or political book which talks about the rise of suicide and depression in our increasingly competitive and globalized world?
>>7360248
just read Kafka and Henry Miller since that's that
>>7360250
these guys are just edgy novelists bro
i'm looking for more of an economics and politics book that has references
>>7360279
Read Durkheim
Byung-chul Han might be appropiate. Haven't read him myself though.
From Wikipedia:
>In Fatigue Society (original German title: Die Müdigkeitsgesellschaft), Han characterizes today's society as a pathological landscape of neuronal disorders such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, borderline and burnout. He claims that they are not "infections" but "infarcts", which are not caused by the negativity of people's immunology, but by an excess of positivity.[4]
>Agonie des Eros (Agony of the Eros) carries Byung-Chul Han's thoughts, which he developed in his earlier books Fatigue Society (German: Die Müdigkeitsgesellschaft) and Transparency Society (German: Transparenzgesellschaft), forward and directs attention to one another on the relationship of humans, on desire and love. Based on an illuminating analysis of the characters in Lars von Trier's movie Melancholia, in which Han sees depression and overcoming depicted, he develops – in his usual discursive manner – the image of a society that is increasingly dominated by narcissism and self-reference. Han's diagnosis extends even to the point that he calls the loss of desire, the disappearance of the ability to devote to "the other", the stranger, the non-self. We revolve around ourselves, cramp us in ourselves, unable to build relationships. Even love and sexuality are permeated by this social change: sex and pornography, exhibition and presentation are displacing love, eroticism and desire from the public eye. The abundance of positivity and self-reference leads to a loss of confrontation. Thinking, Han states, is based on the "untreaded", on the desire for something that one does not yet understand. It is connected to a high degree with Eros, so the "Agony of the Eros" is also an "Agony of Thought". Not everything must be understood and "liked", not everything must be made available.
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam on the erosion of community and its consequences.
Economy
Principles of Microeconomics - Mankiw
Modern Principles of Macroeconomics - Cowen, Tabarrock
Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development And Current State - Snowdon, Vane
Physics from Aristotle.
Politica
Discourse on Inequality by Rousseau
Leviathan is everything you'll ever need to know about geopolitics.
Social Contract seems useful.
>>7361704
Lol this guy defined the terms normie and beta over a 100 years ago
Liquid fear - zygmunt bauman might be exactly what you're looking for
The Happiness Industry is about exactly this, published this year.
