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	The Happiness of Nations
		The authors note that comparisons of people's answers regarding happiness in one country to answers to the same questions in another country is "probably hazardous" because of different languages and cultures that may cause biases in such happiness surveys.
		Happiness measures, Blanchflower and Oswald add, "can tell politicians and others how citizens value the different effects upon well-being of diverse influences such as unemployment, the divorce rate, real income, friendship, traffic jams, crime, health, and much else.
		Happiness is U-shaped in age - that is, it falls off for a while, then stabilizes, and rises later in life.
	www.nber.org /digest/jan06/w11416.html (809 words)

	Gross domestic product - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In economics, gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of the value of economic production of a particular territory in financial capital terms during a specified period.
		GDP differs from gross national product (GNP) in excluding inter-country income transfers, in effect attributing to a territory the product generated within it rather than the incomes received in it.
		The relative size of government expenditure compared to GDP as a whole is critical in the theory of crowding out, and the Keynesian cross.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/g/r/o/Gross_domestic_product.html (2790 words)

	Measuring GDP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gross domestic product, GDP, is defined as the total value of all goods and services produced within that territory during a given year.
		GDP is designed to measure the market value of production that flows through the economy.
		GDP differs from Gross National Product (GNP), in excludng inter-country income transfers, in effect attributing to a territory the product generated within it rather than the incomes received in it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Measuring_GDP (360 words)

	SAAM :: Have a Question? Find an Answer
		Born in Austria, Gross studied in Budapest and Vienna before settling in the United States in 1921.
		Chaim Gross (1904 Austria–1991 USA) will always be remembered as one of the foremost American sculptors who practiced direct carving in wood.
		Born in the Carpathian Mountains in Austrian Galicia, Gross was the son of a lumber merchant.
	americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=1960 (691 words)

	Ming the Mechanic: Gross National Happiness
		So by seeing some poor people happy, like the mediterraneans, and wondering why, one should just be pleased (and allow their happiness to spread over).
		There is a false happiness created by the Media which is based on a consumerist desire for continual satiation, for two satiated shopping people it is actually happiness - 1.
		And happiness is when somehow my life force can be free, when I'm doing something that I'm inspired to do, and it is fun and maybe adventurous.
	ming.tv /flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001580.htm (2510 words)

	M A R I L Y N T A M - Happiness Article Scarlett Magazine
		Happiness is regarded a such a fundamental need that the pursuit of it, along with life and liberty, are written into the Constitution of the United States of America as the three inalienable rights.
		Happiness is also taking time to say thank you, to appreciate the small as well as big things that happen to befall us.
		This lead eventually to the development of the Gross Happiness Index to gauge properly the country’s social, cultural and environmental assets as well as its economic development.
	www.howtousewhatyouvegot.com /tam-happiness.htm (1287 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Happiness doesn't cost the Earth
		The 178-nation "Happy Planet Index" lists the south Pacific island of Vanuatu as the happiest nation on the planet, while the UK is ranked 108th.
		The index is based on consumption levels, life expectancy and happiness, rather than national economic wealth measurements such as GDP.
		Nef is calling for the adoption of a "global manifesto for a happier planet" that will list ways nations can live within their environmental limits and increase people's quality of life.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/5169448.stm (577 words)

	Be Happy Zone
		Happiness is the most important thing to have and the greatest thing to give.
		I will be talking about a country that not only believes in happiness, but also considers it to be as important as their economy.
		This is how important happiness actually is. Unhappiness is a real problem in the world and it is my intention to do everything I possibly can to educate people about the value, the benefits and the power of happiness.
	www.happinessclub.com /FairfieldCitizen/122904.htm (903 words)

	Measures of national income and output (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gross National Product (GNP) is the total value of final goods and services produced in a year by domestically factors of production.
		The wages the American workers would be part of GNP while the wages of any German workers on the would be part of German GNP.
		Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total value of final and services produced within a country's borders a year.
	www.freeglossary.com /Gross_National_Product (1431 words)

	The Hindu : Patents for peace and happiness
		Scientists and technologists from all our universities and public research institutions should be encouraged to assign their patents to such a bank, so that the fruits of scientific discoveries are available for the public good.
		Such a Patents for Peace and Happiness Bank would stimulate scientists to consider themselves trustees of their intellectual property, sharing their inventions with the poor in whose lives they may make a significant difference for the better.
		The Government of Bhutan has taken the lead in developing a Gross National Happiness Index, based on the economics of human dignity, love of art and culture and commitment to spiritual values.
	www.hindu.com /2003/10/13/stories/2003101302021000.htm (1408 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: The Happy Planet Index
		The HPI ranks countires based on the reported happiness of their inhabitants, the length of their lives and the size of their ecological footprints.
		First, reported happiness is a very tricky concept, as I understand it, easily subject to data-collection errors when used to measure entire societies.
		It is measuring the happiness of the planet, not the happiness of people living on the planet.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/004679.html (1755 words)

	Bhutan Looks to WTO to Lift the Happiness Index - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Bhutan is negotiating to join the World Trade Organization, a move that would bring into the global economic community a Himalayan kingdom that measures economic growth with a happiness index.
		King Jigme Singye Wangchuk introduced the index to measure development after he took the throne at the age of 17 in 1972.
		Zimba declined to go into details of the happiness index, but he said it took into account a sustainable balance among the economic, social, emotional and cultural needs of the people.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/develop/devthry/well-being/2003/0224bhutan.htm (565 words)

	Tidepool \| Features
		The Economist recently cited such research, with surveys determining that on average, people in the U.S., Europe and Japan are no more pleased with their lot in life than in the 1950s, despite a doubling of relative affluence.
		Globalization, in the words of Robert Wright writing in Foreign Policy, is "almost unstoppable precisely because it is driven by lots of people hellbent on increasing their prosperity." As countries around the world strive to push their GDPs up, people in poorer countries dream of someday achieving wealth like that found in developed countries.
		The GNH concept was founded with the recognition that human happiness is a composite of both the material and the non-material needs, says the article.
	www.tidepool.org /original_content.cfm?articleid=90895 (1729 words)

	SPIRITUALITY AS THE FOURTH BOTTOM LINE
		These include quality of life indicators when making decisions about health and education, and finding an alternative to gross domestic product as a measure of how well the country is doing — one that reflects happiness as well as welfare, education and human rights.”[iii] There are even journals (www.kluweronline.com/issn/1389-4978) and professors of happiness.
		Happiness thus becomes an inner measure of quality of life, moving away from the quantity of things.
		There are positive indicators such as well-being, happiness (qualitative measures) and negative ones (far easier to collect).
	www.metafuture.org /Articles/spirituality_bottom_line.htm (3501 words)

	A New Measure of Well-Being From a Happy Little Kingdom - New York Times
		Even more striking, beyond a certain threshold of wealth people appear to redefine happiness, studies suggest, focusing on their relative position in society instead of their material status.
		In June, British officials released their first effort along those lines, a summary of "sustainable development indicators" intended to be a snapshot of social and environmental indicators like crime, traffic, pollution and recycling levels.
		Participants focused on an array of approaches to the happiness puzzle, from practical to radical.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/04/science/04happ.html?ei=5090&en=a4c0250cf8714dca&ex=1286078400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (2662 words)

	TVE's Earth Report: Gross National Happiness
		Also see Gross National Happiness and Development, proceedings of the First International Seminar on Operationalization of Gross National Happiness, held in Bhutan in 2004.
		The ‘Buddhist’ Truth of Happiness, Spirituality and development — the case of governance in Bhutanii (pdf format document).
		The Foreign Minister says: "To us [in] maintaining our gross national happiness it is very important that we do not unsettle our population.
	www.tve.org /earthreport/archive/doc.cfm?aid=1717 (1902 words)

	Gross International Happiness
		The Gross International Happiness Project (‘GIH’) is based on the insight that conventional development concepts such as GNP and Per Capita Income do not properly reflect the general well being of the inhabitants of a nation.
		GIH is inspired by the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) proposed by the King of Bhutan, which puts the well being of individuals on top of the national development agenda.
		GIH aims to connect the international efforts which are taking place in the field of developing alternative development indicators, human economics and happiness psychology, so that individual efforts can benefit from each other and that collectively these efforts more strongly impact international development agenda’s.
	www.grossinternationalhappiness.org (213 words)

	Fuzzy Signals: Gross Domestic Happiness
		The most useful figure was gross domestic product, the measure of the goods and services that a nation produces.
		Helping people see a broader range of choices, possible routes towards happiness, is a noble and exciting place to focus ones' energies these days; and I see more and more people deciding that their professional life should facilitate this.
		We also have the Himalayan country of Bhutan (population 750,000), a Buddhist theocracy, developing a Gross Domestic Happiness index, which is has been doing since 1972.
	www.fuzzysignals.com /archives/2004/05/04/000088.html (889 words)

	CybDem: An ecoLuddite journalist and a techno-progressive activist finally reconcile...
		The level of happiness in Western countries hasn't increased in the last 30 years and this despite the emergence of an incalculable number of technologies that were supposed to improve our lives.
		Between the choice of living the simple life of a happy Hobbit in the Shire or living the technosexual lifestyle of the elite in the movie The Island, most of the world criticize the excess of the Microsofted West while trying to find a way to live exactly like that.
		Despite all the harm irrational religions caused, these same religions made people happy and fulfilled or, at the very least, convinced them they were happy and fulfilled by giving their lives meaning.
	cyborgdemocracy.net /2005/08/ecoluddite-journalist-and-techno.html (1824 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Bhutan - The Last Place . Gross National Happiness \| PBS
		Police are empowered to detain any Bhutanese not wearing official national dress, the robelike gho for men and the jacket and apronlike kira for women.
		These were good questions, because only half a year later the Internet and television, both locally broadcast programs and imported cable channels, were due to arrive, and it was tempting to view Bhutan as a kind of a nouvelle canary in the cyber mine shaft.
		After all, gross national happiness may not be advanced by jumping too recklessly into the gale-force winds of the global marketplace and technological change.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/bhutan/gnh.html (5432 words)

	New Happiness Index Shows British Society Peaked in 1976 MARK RICE-OXLEY / Christian Science Monitor 31mar04
		The report by the New Economics Foundation (also dubbed the Gross National Happiness Index) is the latest salvo in an ongoing global debate over how to measure progress.
		Some US cities have created their own quality of life or "sustainability" indexes that include crime, health, environmental, and cultural factors.
		Still, the NEF index is an idea being touted by an international network of economists, environmental groups, and sustainable development experts that want a more sophisticated measurement of quality of life - what some refer to as Gross National Happiness.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2004/British-Happiness-Index31mar04.htm (1019 words)

	Tourism Victoria Corporate Newsletter
		The quarterly survey will offer a snapshot of how happy local residents are, based on a range of local, national and international factors.
		Mr Fischer said the happiness index offered tourism potential by demonstrating to a national and international audience the Shire’s attributes.
		The index is based on the Gross National Happiness (GNH) concept utilised in Bhutan and initiated by the King of Bhutan.
	www.tourismvictoria.com.au /newsletter/february_2005/index.php?page=briefs (582 words)

	Econ 120: Economics of Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Following the United Nations criteria discussed in class, construct the traditional Human Development Index (not including an index for cultural happiness) for these countries and rank them.
		Construct a Cultural Happiness Index for these countries.
		If you were in charge of constructing a Human Development Index for the world, what indicators (variables) would you include in your index.
	econ.ucsc.edu /~oteng/Econ120_ps1.htm (173 words)

	Happiness index a vital statistic
		Mr Fischer says the index is loosely patterned on the Indigo Gross National Happiness Index, "which is helping to boost the desirability of living in and visiting Indigo Shire in northeast Victoria".
		Indigo Shire tourism director Seane Pieper said the wellbeing index had been in place for a year and was running at 69 per cent.
		Mr Pieper said that although there was only a small amount the shire could do to lift happiness, the index did allow the council to form its priorities and detect community concerns.
	www.acl.org.au /national/browse.stw?article_id=7184 (671 words)

	Introduction
		In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.” In our time, generating and disseminating reliable information has become a passion.
		President Lyndon Johnson captured some of this yearning for new quality of life when he announced in 1964 that “the great society is concerned not with how much, but with how good – not with the quantity of goods but with the quality of their lives” (quoted in Noll, 1996).
		The forum acknowledged the vast experience accumulated in other countries and regions with the established blueprints for social indexing and reporting that must be studied and, where appropriate, utilized.
	www.unlv.edu /centers/cdclv/healthnv/introduction.html (7588 words)

	GNH 2: Conference Description
		More than 30 years ago, the King of Bhutan declared that "Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product." Delegates from Bhutan described the challenges they now face in putting that view into practice.
		The design of the conference was intended to create an atmosphere of open participation that would demonstrate modes of communication practiced in a society devoted to enhancing wellbeing.
		In that spirit, the 2005 conference was held in Canada at St. Francis Xavier University and co-hosted by Genuine Progress Index Atlantic; the Coady International Institute; Shambhala; the Centre for Bhutan Studies; the Province of Nova Scotia; the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University; and the University of New Brunswick.
	www.gpiatlantic.org /conference/index.htm (858 words)

	Solutions and sustainability - Oct 23 \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		The star of the conference was thus the only current government attempt at such a project--the Gross National Happiness Index maintained by the Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan, which was heavily and happily represented in Nova Scotia.
		Small is Beautiful proposes a scaled-down, resource-thrifty version of modernity not just because the author thought we'd all be happier (much), but because he felt it would eventually be forced upon us anyway, the result of a forceful revelation Schumacher had in the 1950s.
		While chief economist at the British National Coal Board, studying the energy consumption patterns of Western Europe, it occurred to Schumacher that the obsession with growth that was the religion of both the Western and Eastern blocs failed to take into account the finite resource base upon which their economies rested.
	www.energybulletin.net /10015.html (1616 words)

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