Here’s what comes up on <gross national happiness>
Review: The Hidden Wealth of Nations
Review: The Politics of Happiness–What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
Review: The Health of Nations–Society and Law beyond the State
Phi Beta Iota: The Founding Fathers of the United STATES of America included the “pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. This was not frivolous. Wikipedia provides a superb concise discussion of how to interpret happiness in “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Our own interpretation, to which the below books have contributed, is that happiness is construed in two distinct aspects:
First, that each person find their fullest potential and live to that potential; and
Second, that each person be nurtured to their fullest potential within a harmonious community, or “fraternite.”
Happiness, like trust, lowers the cost to society of everything.
Review DVD John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
Review: The Thirteen American Arguments–Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country
Review: The Idea that is America–Keeping Faith With Our Values in a Dangerous World
Review: Peaceful Positive Revolution–Economic Security for Every American
Review: Groundswell–Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Review: Here Comes Everybody–The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Review: The Ecology of Commerce–A Declaration of Sustainability
Review: The Compassionate Instinct–The Science of Human Goodness
Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny
Review: The Way of the World–A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Review: The Nine Nations of North America
Review: Secession, State, and Liberty
Review: Losing America–Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency
Review: At War with Ourselves–Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World
Review: Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect
Review: Anthropologists in the Public Sphere–Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power
Review: Unspeakable Truths–Facing the Challenges of Truth Commissions (Paperback)
Review: Acts of God–The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
Review: The End of America–Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Review: TYRANNICIDE The Story of the Second American Revolution
Review: Daydream Believers–How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
Review: The Celestine Prophecy
Review: The leadership of civilization building–Administrative and civilization theory, symbolic dialogue, and citizen skills for the 21st century
Review: Finding Our Way–Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Hardcover)
Review: Pedagogy of Freedom–Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage