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2012/10/192012/10/19

Michel Bauwens: Redefining Happiness, Challenging Consumerism

Redefining happiness Challenging consumerism. Al Ja-zeera,Wednesday, October 17 Many citizens of capitalist countries grow up in cultures that praise individualism and define success as owning bigger and better things. However, psychologists argue that a consumerist approach leaves many people unhappy. Some are challenging the consumption equals happiness mentality by intentionally living with less. So how …

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2012/09/302012/09/30

Michel Bauwens: When Growth Outpaces Happiness (Corrupt Mis-Appropriation of the Benefits of Growth)

When Growth Outpaces Happiness CHINA’s new leaders, who will be anointed next month at the Communist Party’s 18th National Congress in Beijing, might want to rethink the Faustian bargain their predecessors embraced some 20 years ago: namely, that social stability could be bought by rapid economic growth. As the recent riots at a Foxconn factory …

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2011/09/13

Tom Atlee: Gross National Happiness & Sacred Economics

September 13, 2011 Remarkable videos and a remarkable book about remarkable economics This is, for me, the most inspiring TED Talk I’ve ever seen. Silver Donald Cameron – Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness And here are a film and a book that expand and deepen the view that economics can and should be …

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2011/01/122011/01/12

Economics of Happiness: Going Local

the Economics of Happiness A film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & John Page ‘Going local’ is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world – our ecosystems, our societies and our selves. Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different future… FeaturingVandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David …

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2010/11/062010/11/06

Reference: Happiness Ten Precepts

Mary J. Loftus Associate Editor, Emory Magazine Posted: November 6, 2010 09:36 AM Top 10 Things Religious Leaders Say about Happiness Here are the top 10 things I learned about true spiritual happiness based on listening to a panel consisting of the Dalai Lama; Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Chief …

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2010/07/112010/07/12

Search: gross national happiness (sic)

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” …

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2010/06/202010/06/20

Review: The Politics of Happiness–What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

Absolutely Righteous, Mis-Leading Title June 20, 2010 Derek Bok First off, I’m back. After three months integrating into a field position with a prominent international organization, with three days off the whole time, I am finally able to get back to reading, and have about fifteen books on water I was going to read for …

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