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Happiness is the new economics |
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Written by Sarah-Kate Templeton
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Sunday, 05 December 2004 |
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THE normally dry science of economics has found a new means of expressing a nation’s wellbeing. Instead of studying the gross domestic product, a team of researchers has decided that happiness is the best indicator of a country’s relative success. They have devised a test to calculate a population’s satisfaction with their everyday lives or lack of it. The sum of those individual accounts has produced a new measurement: the gross national happiness. It opens up the possibility that one day international comparisons of nations will not be based on the goods and services they produce. They will be judged on the cheerful disposition of their inhabitants.
Continue story @ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1388623,00.html
Source: Times Online
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