Friday, May 08, 2009

Bhutan recalculates Gross National Happiness...

If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on an answer.

“Greed, insatiable human greed,” said Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, describing what he sees as the cause of today’s economic catastrophe in the world beyond the snow-topped mountains. “What we need is change,” he said in the whitewashed fortress where he works. “We need to think gross national happiness.” More...

See also:

  1. Bhutan: Gross National Happiness vs Democracy...
  2. Bhutan, the world's first non-smoking nation...
  3. Ken Dodd and Happiness...
  4. A Map of Global Happiness and Well-Being?

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