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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Gross National Happiness


UN discusses Gross National Happiness indicator as successor to Gross Domestic Product


Bhutan’s Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley told a high-level U.N. meeting Monday that it not only should but that it must if mankind is to avoid its current unsustainable and self-destructive course./.../
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April 2, 2012, 10:09 AM

Seeking Happiness on a Finite and Human-Shaped Planet

12:16 p.m. | Live Updates below |
I’m at the United Nations today for the Bhutan-led “High Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm.” The details are nicely summarized in a recent Op-Ed article by Timothy W. Ryback, the deputy secretary general of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris. As Ryback explains, the meeting was approved in a U.N. resolution last year recognizing that “the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal” and “the gross domestic product [G.D.P.] does not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of people….”/.../

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