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In an excerpt from The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Richard Heinberg argues it’s time to start paying more attention to national happiness instead.

Bhutan, for example, has been a pioneer in valuing happiness more than economic development. It measures the Gross National Happiness of its citizens rather than relying on economic metrics to ...

Bhutan is the only country in the world that uses Gross National Happiness to measure ... It will be an attempt at a new model of robust economic development, while still holding true to Bhutanese ...

Gross National Happiness acknowledges that economic ... an attempt at a new model of robust economic development, still true to Bhutanese values. He's calling it the Gelephu Mindfulness City.

Bhutan has over the last 20 years emerged from centuries of cultural and diplomatic isolation, although it has long accepted development ... instead seeks “gross national happiness.” ...