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Does this new emphasis on
happiness
represent a shift or just a passing fad?
After correlating per capita income and self-reported
happiness
levels across a number of countries, he reached a startling conclusion: probably not.
Above a rather low level of income (enough to satisfy basic needs), Easterlin found no correlation between
happiness
and GNP per head.
In other words, above a low level of sufficiency, peoples’
happiness
levels are determined much less by their absolute income than by their income relative to some reference group.
Indeed, she espoused a rigorous philosophy about borrowing: “The secret of
happiness
is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.”
It is in times of crisis that Utopian ideas about ways of guaranteeing human
happiness
flourish, often claiming some scientific basis.
Or it may be that the greatest
happiness
of all comes from not having to worry about stuff like this.
In Bhutan, the economic challenge is not growth in gross national product, but in gross national
happiness
(GNH).
The second was about the individual and the meaning of
happiness.
The question of how to guide an economy to produce sustainable
happiness
– combining material well-being with human health, environmental conservation, and psychological and cultural resiliency – is one that needs addressing everywhere.
Bhutan’s Buddhist tradition understands
happiness
not as attachment to goods and services, but as the result of the serious work of inner reflection and compassion toward others.
Should we aim for the greatest possible total quantity of happiness, or the highest average level of
happiness?
Assuming that the average level of
happiness
is positive, these choices will diverge if increasing the planet’s population will reduce the average, but not by enough to offset the fact that now more happy people exist.
Unlike personal tastes, which are fickle and offer no sure path to
happiness
or virtue, duties can be discerned by a logical mechanism common to all humans.
Then Taiwan did several things: by establishing science parks, it provided a good environment for R&D; by deregulating, it provided opportunities for entrepreneurs; last, but emphatically not least, by ending the dictatorship and ushering in democracy, it provided the basis for that universal desire of people to pursue their individual freedom and
happiness.
Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all: human development, prosperity, and
happiness
for their people.
It can be argued that during the colonial era, France willed the
happiness
of Algerians, not only the greatness of France.
Of income, wealth, happiness, fate?
“The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of
happiness
should be abhorrent and detestable,” he wrote, “even if it does not sow the decay of the whole civilized life of Europe.”
Finally, today’s economic transformation has prompted a healthy discussion of the relationship between economic output and wellbeing or
happiness.
A new approach to ensuring
happiness
and wellbeing in the decades ahead is unavoidable.
There is, he maintained, “an intimate connection between public virtue and public happiness.”
Against this backdrop, the time has come to reconsider the basic sources of
happiness
in our economic life.
The relentless pursuit of higher income is leading to unprecedented inequality and anxiety, rather than to greater
happiness
and life satisfaction.
Forty years ago, Bhutan’s fourth king, young and newly installed, made a remarkable choice: Bhutan should pursue “gross national happiness” rather than gross national product.
We assembled in the wake of a declaration in July by the United Nations General Assembly calling on countries to examine how national policies can promote
happiness
in their societies.
All who gathered in Thimphu agreed on the importance of pursuing
happiness
rather than pursuing national income.
The question we examined is how to achieve
happiness
in a world that is characterized by rapid urbanization, mass media, global capitalism, and environmental degradation.
Economic development that alleviates poverty is a vital step in boosting
happiness.
Second, relentless pursuit of GNP to the exclusion of other goals is also no path to
happiness.
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