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Britain calls on the world to put a price on nature Every country in the world should measure ‘natural capital’ as well as GDP in order to create a global economy that values the environment as well as money, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman will say. Caroline Spelman, the UK Environment Secretary, said all countries should measure the state of natural [More...]
Thanks to the Earth Policy Institute for this recent release. January 31, 2012 2011: A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come Janet Larsen and Sara Rasmussen The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña [More...]
Article in The Scientist explores new ways of involving people in scientific research or citizen science, often using crowdsourcing to gather data that would take a few scientists in a Lab many years to accumulate. Read Article
Tim Kassner with the New American Dream offers a short look at Materialism. Watch the video
Link to article from 2006
We (Still) Want Bread, and Roses Too The centennial of the famous strike in Lawrence, Mass., reminds us that our fight is about more than economics. posted Jan 10, 2012 A century ago, in what has come to be known as the Bread and Roses strike, a group of women walked out of the Lawrence, Mass., textile mill where they worked. A new law [More...]
Measuring for the Future An overview of measurements of progress and sustainability on the state-level Read this overview report by the New Economics Institute (PDF)
NPR Article on the psyho-physiology of spiritual experiences. Click on EXPAND boxes to navigate the article. Read Article
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Sustainable Seattle released the results of the first GNH Survey with over 7000 responses from around the country and 2400 responses from the Seattle area. Read full document
Date: Monday, October 24, 2011 Source: The Washington Post (U.S.) Author: Juliet Eilperin Humans have mined resources from the remote and rocky coast of Peru and Chile for more than a century and a half, gathering the guano deposits of seabirds for fertilizer and gunpowder. Those seabirds flourished on anchoveta in the coastal waters, while Peruvians in the highlands ate the same fish [More...]
An 18 minute TED Talk that is pretty inspiring -- past it around. Watch Simon Sinek
Here is a very good short article on the Canadian Index of Well-Being. Their 8 Domains of Well-Being, and 64 sub-indicators are very close to the GNH indicators. I have included a link to the CIW website and a PDF of their Methodology whiich you might find useful. http://www.universityaffairs.ca/canadian-researchers-to-launch-national-index-of-wellbeing.aspx Canadian researchers launch national index of well-being Index, 12 years in the [More...]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696 The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the main players in the eurozone as well as other big world economies. The arrows show how much money is owed by each country to banks in other nations. The arrows point from the debtor to the creditor and are proportional to the money owed as of [More...]
Occupy demands: Let's radicalise our analysis Opinion from Al Jazeera The crisis we face is caused by failed systems - replacing leaders while keeping the old system intact will not help. Robert Jensen Last Modified: 09 Nov 2011 14:57 'Occupy' protests have spread around the world as discontentment with capitalism has grown [EPA] There's one question that pundits and politicians keep posing to the Occupy [More...]
New science unveils how your brain is hard-wired when it comes to spending—and how you can reboot it. by Sharon Begley , Jean Chatzky |October 30, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Newsweek Like many colleges, Washington University in St. Louis offers children of its faculty free tuition. So Leonard Green, a professor of psychology there, did all he could to persuade his daughter [More...]
You aren’t depressed; our brains just aren’t equipped for 21st-century life. by Andrew Weil |October 30, 2011 10:00 AM EDT In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a “disease of affluence,” a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world. People who live in poorer countries [More...]
19 Statistics About the Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You By Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Posted on November 8, 2011, Printed on November 9, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/153005/extreme_poverty_is_now_at_record_levels_--_19_statistics_about_the_poor_that_will_absolutely_astound_you According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured before. In 2010, we were told that the economy was recovering, but the truth is that [More...]
By Kerry Trueman, AlterNet Posted on October 9, 2011, Printed on November 9, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/152673/why_danes_are_so_much_happier_than_americans Americans may be deeply divided about what ails our country, but there's no denying we're a nation of unhappy campers. Danes, on the other hand, consistently rank as some of the happiest people in the world, a fact attributed at least in part to Denmark's legendary income equality and [More...]
By Andrew Weil, Huffington Post Posted on November 8, 2011, Printed on November 9, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/153021/5_ways_to_have_a_happier_life In my new book, "Spontaneous Happiness," I write about lifestyle practices that can help people achieve and maintain happy lives. Bear in mind that by "happy," I am not referring to endless bliss. Despite what many in the media proclaim these days, such a state is neither [More...]
New YoRK TIMES Opinion October 9, 2011 Redefining the Meaning of No. 1 By DAVID J. ROTHKOPF Published: October 8, 2011 Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints David J. Rothkopf is the author of the forthcoming “Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government — and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead.” Related in Opinion David Leonhardt: The Depression, if Only [More...]
Jack Hoffman, longtime Vermont survey research specialist from Public Assets Institute calls for rebuilding robust performance measures for Vermont. Recently released Census data are both a wake-up call and a gift for the Shumlin administration and the Legislature. A wake-up call because the statistics show that middle-income Vermonters are earning less and more of them are slipping into poverty—evidence that things are moving [More...]
Title: Cafe' Scientifique - Measuring HappinessLocation: Leahy Echo Center Waterfront Burlington, VermontLink out: Click hereDescription: An evening of presentation and conversation on happiness and how word analysis of social media can be used to show happiness levels around the world in real time. Chris Danforth, PhD UVM Math DepartmentStart Time: 18:30Date: 2011-11-10End Time: 20:30
Title: Well-Being Indicators for a Happy and Sustainable Future Location: Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont 4869 Main Street Manchester Center, Vermont 05255 802-362-2200 • 800-437-3700 Description: Gross National Happiness Workshop and Seminar with Tom Barefoot, Co-Coordinator of GNHUSA, GNH is based on the premise that the calculation of “wealth” should consider other aspects besides economic development: the preservation of the environment and the [More...]
Maryland's GPI website now has 2010 Data. Maryland has been using the Genuine Progress Indicator to provide better information for policy and budget development for agencies of the State Government. See a good example of how GPI can be implemented and how a website can provide important data to the public. Note also the State Stats button, which leads to dashboards [More...]
WASHINGTON -- A record number of Americans – 49.1 million – are poor, based on a new census measure that for the first time takes into account rising medical costs and other expenses. The numbers released Monday are part of a first-ever supplemental poverty measure aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty. Although considered experimental, they promise to stir fresh [More...]
The largest banks and financial institutions made more money in the first 2 years of the Obama Administration then they did in 8 years of the Bush Administration. By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Published: November 6 The largest banks are larger than they were when Obama took office and are nearing the level of profits they were making before the depths of the financial [More...]
Demos, a non-partisan think tank has released important new reports on the State of Young America. www.demos.org Read PDF SOYA Data Read SOYA Survey
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Monday, November 7, 2011 (11-07) 03:53 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them with housing and college debt. The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or [More...]
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Our search to understand what makes humans happy (or happier) goes back centuries. As does our enduring belief that if we just do the right thing, happiness will follow — that additional happiness will be doled out to us because we earned it, not due to the largess of a benevolent being. "Happiness is [More...]
Amy Goodman gave a talk at Connecting for Change- Bioneers by the Bay in New Bedford, MA October 22, 2011. It ranges over a number of topics of interest, but is not GNH related. Watch video
Radio interview with Michael Pennock on of the contributors to the original Bhutanese Survey of Happiness and later international versions of the survey for Brazil and Canada. The interview appeared on October 3, 2011 on NPR, The World (BBC and WGBH Boston). See the article page and listen to the audio http://www.world-science.org/forum/happiness-index-well-being-bhutan-canada-victoria-michael-pennock/
Right now, armies of marketers, pollsters and social scientists are trying to figure out what Americans are thinking about — issues like global warming or Lady Gaga's latest outfit. Surveys are only so good: It's hard to get a big enough sample to be sure of the results. That's particularly vexing for social scientists who want a high standard of accuracy. But now they have [More...]
Home / News / September 24th, 2011; Vol.180 #7 Financial world dominated by a few deep pockets Economic “superentity” controls more than one-third of global wealth By Rachel Ehrenberg September 24th, 2011; Vol.180 #7 (p. 13) Science News POWER BALL A central core of extremely powerful actors (red dots) dominates international corporate finance, a new mathematical analysis finds.Vitali et al, 2011 Conventional wisdom says a few [More...]
by Eric Zencey The government of Minnesota shut down thanks to a $5 billion budget gap. Wisconsin public employees have been de-unionized so their salaries and benefits can be cut to close a budget gap. New Jersey just missed shutting down as a Democratic legislature and a Republican governor agreed that austerity cuts are needed (though there’s still going to [More...]
Notebook The GDP isn’t called gross for nothing By David Brancaccio, May 06, 2010 from www.brancaccio.com Suppose you found a lantern, gave it a rub, and wished that everyone in the world would act ethically and lawfully, henceforth and in perpetuity. Imagine a world of law-abiding citizens. I would want to live in that world. Yet what a disaster that would be for the [More...]
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not By Deena Stryker Date posted: 15 August 2011 View this article online here: http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/728.1 An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally [More...]
Economy 4.0 Maryland updates Genuine Progress Indicator By David Brancaccio Marketplace, Monday, September 19, 2011 Listen to this Story The state's alternative indicators measure things like job creation, environmental impacts and residents' quality time. Enlarge photo A look at Maryland Genuine Progress Indicators (green.maryland.gov) Kai Ryssdal: There's not much joy in economic statistics-ville right at the moment. You wanna get depressed, take a peek [More...]
Bhutan Conference on Happiness and Economic Development The Kingdom of Bhutan Conference on Happiness and Economic Development: August 10-12 Hosted by His Excellency Prime Minister Thinley and Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs Conference Overview From August 10-12, 2011, His Excellency Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of the Kingdom of Bhutan and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, [More...]
The Happiness Equation 9/9/2011 4:39:37 PM by Margret Aldrich Utne Reader Tags: happiness, economics, money, equality, inequality, emotions, YES! Magazine, Margret Aldrich Economic equality equals happiness. So suggests a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science. In order for Americans to be truly blissed out, it finds, we need to close the gap between our wealthiest and poorest citizens. “In 1980, [More...]
Op-Ed Contributor Going Green but Getting Nowhere By GERNOT WAGNER Published: September 7, 2011 YOU reduce, reuse and recycle. You turn down plastic and paper. You avoid out-of-season grapes. You do all the right things. Leif Parsons Good. Just know that it won’t save the tuna, protect the rain forest or stop global warming. The changes necessary are so large and profound that they are beyond [More...]
Times Argus Opinion Piece August 31, 2011 Don’t Rebuild. Re-Design I walked down to the Winooski this morning to watch the last of our most recent biblical flood. In the clearing skies I started to sense a message from the heavens. They seem to be sending Vermont a clear and repeated warning. Perhaps we couldn’t hear it whispered beneath one of the [More...]
Title: Gross National Happiness Location: Hayes Room Kellogg-Hubbard Library 135 Main ST Montpelier, VT 05602 Description: Gross National Happiness 101 is an Introduction to how we can change what we measure to include what makes us happy. Measures of well-being are now being adopted by communities and governments around the world. We will learn why we need to go beyond Gross Domestic [More...]
By JOHN MOIR Published: August 8, 2011, New York Times COTO BRUS, Costa Rica — Dawn is breaking over this remote upland region, where neat rows of coffee plants cover many of the hillsides. The rising tropical sun saturates the landscape with color, revealing islandlike remnants of native forest scattered among the coffee plantations. But across this bucolic countryside, trouble is brewing. An [More...]
Read a paper from the Happiness and Development conference in Bhutan this week on THE WELL-BEING SOCIETY: a scenario inspired by Gross National Happiness. Action-Research in Thailand.
The President Surrenders Source: The New York Times By Paul Krugman August 1, 2011 A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many commentators will declare that disaster was avoided. But they will be wrong. For the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for President Obama and his party. It [More...]
While the news was huffing and puffing about the Debt Ceiling crisis, government gridlock, murderous heads of state in the middle east, and the bombing/shooting rampage in Oslo 66 nations from the U.N. General Assembly put forth a resolution urging all the countries of the world to research and utilize well-being measures for development and progress. Read the Huffington Post Article
Additional countries adding their names to the list of co-sponsors on the floor. Andora, Croatia, Cuba, Iceland, Montenegro, Monoco, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, San Marino, Soloman Islands, Serbia, Vietnam. PDF File of U.N. General Assembly Resolution encouraging development and use of Happiness measures
The Seattle, Washington City Council has unanimously approved the Seattle Area Happiness Initiative based on both objective data and a Happiness Survey similar to the Gross National Happiness Survey developed for Bhutan. An interesting component is a plan by the Happiness Initiative for many small community meetings to discuss the results and discuss what is being done in their communities and [More...]
We Knew They Got Raises. But This? Source: New York Times Share This By Pradnya Joshi July 6, 2011 It turns out that the good times are even better than we thought for American chief executives. A preliminary examination of executive pay in 2010, based on data available as of April 1, found that the paychecks for top American executives were growing again, after shrinking during the 2008-9 recession. But [More...]
The Seattle City Council has approved a resolution to use well-being surveys to help the council develop policy to increase the happiness of the residents of Seattle. Read and watch video newscast
The True Value of Nature, June 2011 The Secretary of State for the Environment, Caroline Spelman, today launched the findings of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK NEA). The UK NEA, which analyses the value of the UK's natural environment by taking account of the economic, health and social benefits we get from nature, is the first of its kind at [More...]
Measuring Economic Stress across the U.S. - measuring unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcy. Play with the interactive map to see what is happening now or at different dates. Vermont and New England show decreasing levels of economic stress in recent months. Load Map
Gallup results from 350,000 Americans surveyed in 2008 show New England among the least religious states. Read Article
Nine Year old Milo from Burlington, Vermont starts organization to reduce the use of straws. In the US we currently distribute 500 million straws PER DAY! Article on Here and Now on NPR http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/06/08/straw-overuse-drinking http://www.bestrawfree.org/
Why do these State by State rankings from Gallup Healthways show so much change (much of it for the worse) in Vermont between 2009 and 2010? We asked Carol Graham who has worked with the Gallup Healthways datasets for Vermont what she thought. She said she didn't see anything particular that might be causing this. So for the moment we [More...]
Op-Ed Columnist The Earth Is Full By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: June 7, 2011 N.Y. Times You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were [More...]
An empirical analysis of social and economic conditions in the months before the uprising on Jan. 25, 2011. Abu Dabhi Gallup Read PDF File
N.Korea says it's the 2nd Happiest Country on Earth. North Korea's Central TV recently invented its own politically expedient global happiness index, claiming China is the world's happiest country, followed by North Korea, NBC reported Tuesday. China topped the list as the happiest country on earth with 100 points out of 100, trailed by North Korea with 98. Other thorns in [More...]
Jeremy Grantham manages a 100 Billion Dollar Hedge Fund and he wrote in his April newsletter to investors, about the new reality of limits to our resources and how that changes and challenges the infinite growth ideology. Read Jeremy's article.
Eric Zencey, author, professor and GNHUSA board member provides us with another thoughtful article published on the Daly Blog on what might come next for the design of a sustainable economy. Read Eric's article.
An up-and-coming town wants to know how happy it's residents are. Somerville, Massachusetts distributed a happiness survey with its census forms this year. Read an interesting NY Times article.
Enjoy a TED Talk describing some recent research on smiling. It will bring a smile to your face! Watch video.
An Experiment In Happiness "Happy Jiangyin" is the name of this award-winning experiment that won the China Local Government Innovation Award. Instead of just aiming for economic growth, for the past four years this wealthy city in Jiangsu province has come up with a list of magic ingredients it believes add up to happiness. Besides health care and [More...]
The goal of the FuturICT global knowledge accelerator platform proposed by European researchers is to understand how the world works so that imminent crises can be predicted and possibly ameliorated or even prevented. Led by ETH Zurich scientist Dirk Helbing, the project aims to develop the Living Earth Simulator to facilitate the modeling and analysis of techno-commercial-sociological-ecological systems, and [More...]
David Cameron and his advisers want to make us feel better, but they don't know how. Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian, Tuesday 19 April 2011 One of the best gauges of whether a statement actually means anything is to stick a not in its middle. If the opposite sounds ridiculous, then the chances are the original proposition is mush. Who would seriously argue that [More...]
New Metrics for a New Era: The Gallup-Healthways UK Well-Being Index The video wants to make a case that good jobs and good healthcare may be the low-hanging fruit that politicians might go after early on. Watch Video
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Marketplace, Friday, April 15, 2011 Listen to the Commentary at Marketplace Rising food and oil prices will dominate discussions at the annual spring meetings for the World Bank and the IMF. Another topic of debate: The Middle East. Samer Shehata (Georgetown University) Kai Ryssdal: We had Robert Zoellick on the broadcast earlier this week. He's the president of the World Bank. And we were [More...]
Nick Marks and others start Action for Happiness April 12, 2011 Action for Happiness is a movement for positive social change. We're bringing together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. For fifty years we've aimed relentlessly at higher incomes. But despite being much wealthier, we're no [More...]
Interview with David Suzuki - leading Canadian Environmentalist on his 75th Birthday. Sustainable Activism By Joseph Roberts photo courtesy the David Suzuki Foundation Joseph Roberts: How did it all begin? David Suzuki: We started when the Worldwatch Institute said it’s the turnaround decade. We thought we were only going to be here for 10 years. So we said every dollar we raise [More...]
The Vermont Business Roundtable offers resources for Vermont Businesses wishing to start wellness programs at their companies. The Wellness Council of America has 7 wellness goals for businesses. www.welcoa.org The Vermont Department of Health understands a healthy work environment is integral to the health and wellbeing of all Vermonters. The Vermont Worksite Wellness Resource Toolkit was created to help Vermont [More...]
The New Yorker March 22, 2010 by Elizabeth Kolbert In 1978, a trio of psychologists curious about happiness assembled two groups of subjects. In the first were winners of the Illinois state lottery. These men and women had received jackpots of between fifty thousand and a million dollars. In the second group were victims of devastating accidents. Some [More...]
Christian Science Monitor By Mary Helen Miller, Correspondent / April 4, 2011 In February, the Boston suburb included a life-satisfaction survey in the annual census form it mailed to its 80,000 residents. Question No. 2: "How satisfied are you with your life in general?" If this sounds a little fluffy, it's actually part of a growing effort by cities and [More...]
The U.S. Peace Index is the first in a series of national peace indices that the Institute for Economics and Peace will be releasing to complement and build on its highly respected Global Peace Index. The aim is to further understand the types of environments that are associated with peace and its economic impacts at [More...]
The new survey on social "well-being" will give economists -- and voters -- a new tool for judging their leaders. The British government is starting to measure happiness, anxiety and general well-being as part of its regular economic statistics. (David Brancaccio/Marketplace) Bob Moon: Here's a question to ponder: scale of zero to 10 -- 10 being a state of rapture -- "How [More...]
One site, two articles...beautiful graphical visualizations of data -- climb over US Tax data, fresh ways to look at data. http://flowingdata.com/ US Congress is planning severe cuts to Open Data websites. Data.gov may close. Learn more
Robert H. Frank, NY Times April 2, 2011 LIKE everyone else, government officials want to look good. That often leads them to enact policies that promote favorable movements in the indexes by which they are judged. But when those indexes are imperfect, bad choices often result. And that’s nowhere more evident than in economic policy. Read Article from NY Times
Here is one reading of the numbers from the large Gallup well-being studies listing the top-scoring cities in the USA. This article has been spread over 14 pages, likely to force the reader to scan past more ads, so our apologies in advance. Read about the Happiest Cities in the USA http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-happiest-cities-in-america.html 10 Happiest Cities in America posted by Melissa Breyer Mar 28, 2011 [More...]
Scott Simon from NPR March 19, 2011 Listen to the story on NPR A news crew from Fuji TV saw a couple of dogs this week, lying in the wreckage of Mito, Japan. A dog with brown and white splotches seemed to hover over one with gray, black and white splotches. Both dogs looked grimy. The second dog didn't seem to [More...]
This came by from some friends today. Several good lessons contained within a nice story. After losing his parents, this 3 year old orangutan was so depressed he wouldn't eat and didn't respond to any medical treatments. The veterinarians thought he would surely die from sadness. The zoo keepers found an old sick dog on the grounds in the park at the zoo where the orangutan lived [More...]
In Survey, Nation's Richest Have Positive Economic Outlook but Concerns About Retirement The nation's millionaires have spoken, and the magic number above which they feel wealthy is $7.5 million. Four out of 10 millionaires surveyed say they do not feel wealthy, even though they reported an average of $3.5 million in investable assets. Among the 58 percent of [More...]
by Roger Cohen, London The Brits don’t go in much for happiness. Stiff upper lip is more the thing, and a good laugh if warranted. Trying to be happy just seems like piffle to a practical people. Undeterred, Prime Minister David Cameron has decided to create a national happiness index providing quarterly measures of how folks feel. Read NY [More...]
Article in the Daly News, March 7, 2011 by Eric Zencey, GNHUSA Board member The regime changes in Egypt and Tunisia have been hailed as victories for democracy, as proof of the liberalizing power of social networking media, as testimony to the power of nonviolent political action. All of that they may indeed be; but the events in Egypt and Tunisia [More...]
David Brancaccio in a special series on new ways of looking at the Economy for Public Radio's Marketplace Read or listen to the audio online Kai Ryssdal: Consider this for just a second: We didn't really start getting better gas mileage from our cars until we started measuring miles per gallon and then slapping a sticker with the results onto [More...]
Mother Jones Magazine is making it easy to see the widening chasm between the rich and the poor. This series of charts and graphs shows where the money has been going. See the article.
Gallup Survey shows interesting data for Egypt and Tunisia. Over the last few years, GDP has gone up for both countries, but the percentage of people who say they are "Thriving" has decreased steeply to very low numbers compared to other Middle East countries. Look at the data on other countries in the region." Read full article
PRI's Marketplace hosts a series of reports from Bhutan on the impact of development on Bhutan's efforts to maintain their traditional drivers of happiness in a changing world. Can Bhutan develop a happy economy that takes care of their natural environment and their people? Listen to the stories
Economy 4.0 David Brancaccio on American Public Media, Marketplace 1-31-2010 Guess who French President Nicolas Sarkozy invited to dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos? The take-from-the-rich, give-to-the-poor hero of the downtrodden, Mr. Robin Hood. Or, some might say, the legendary bandit, Robin Hood. Sarkozy is making it clear to the high-powered gathering of business, economic, and policy [More...]
by David Doody UTNE Blogs 1-26-2011 How can a country hope to define its national well being in terms of happiness? It’s hard enough for us to say if we’re happy or not on an individual level, much less to try and tell the whole country, Come on, get happy! Those are lofty goals for any nation. But, then [More...]
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