In an excerpt from The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Richard Heinberg argues it’s time to start paying more attention to national happiness instead.

Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?" Journal of Development Economics 86, no. 1 (April 2008).

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The felicitous phrase he invented to describe his approach: Gross National Happiness. For many Bhutanese, this idea is not merely a marketing tool or a utopian philosophy. It is their blueprint ...

A place that charted its own path to development when its king coined the phrase "Gross National Happiness" and made maximizing it the nation's top priority. But when a fairytale kingdom meets the ...

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This week, the nation celebrated another historic moment as His Majesty conferred the inaugural Gross National Happiness (GNH) award, reaffirming the monarch’s unwavering commitment to the core ...

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