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From ‘Progress’ to an Economics of Happiness

Blog From ‘Progress’ to an Economics of Happiness by Helena Norberg-Hodge. Photo by D. Jonez on Unsplash.

If there’s one thing I’d love world leaders to think about in connection with the UN’s International Day of Happiness, it’s that their measure of progress actually goes up with unhappiness and unrest. GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, which is […]

Filed Under: Economics of Happiness Conferences, Happiness, Localization Tagged With: consumerism, depression, Economics of Happiness, GDP, localization, mental health, progress, well-being

Ten Years After the Crash: more of the same, or a new beginning?

The year 2008 was a momentous one. The ‘anniversary’ headlines are of course all about the financial crash. As Nick Mathiason in The Guardian put it at the time: “It was the year the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy that ran the […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Economics of Happiness Conferences, New economy Tagged With: degrowth, economic growth, economics, Economics of Happiness, GDP, globalization, happiness, new economy, well-being

Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can

Earlier this year media outlets around the world announced that February had broken global temperature records by a shocking amount. March broke all the records too. In June, our screens were covered with surreal images of flooding in Paris, the […]

Filed Under: Climate Change Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, deforestation, economic growth, economics, GDP, growth imperative, happiness, neweconomy, sustainability

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