Happiness Movement - The Why Where Who How for a new economic paradigm
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why
measure happiness
imagine if…
Sustainability
Healthy Ecosystems
Social Justice
Economic Fairness
Happiness &
Wellbeing
GDP
Economic Growth
Wealth Accumulatio
n
Stuff & Status
Kasser & Ryan, 1993 & Dittmar, Bond, Hurst & Kasser, 2014
Gross Domestic ProductGross Domestic Product
What GDP counts:+ goods and services sold + oil spills, natural and manmade
disasters+ illness and death+ divorce+ accidents
What GDP does not count:- time with friends & family- volunteering, participating
in democratic process - gardening, educating
yourself - walking for exercise
the sum of all good and services produced in a year
Does GDP make us happy?
GDP in the US has
more than tripled
since 1950s.
Adjusted per capita
GDP since 1960 has
doubled since 2010
Happiness has remained stagnant and even fallen
Easterlin Paradox40 year study of nations across the globe
Easterlin Paradox40 year study of nations across the globe
Up to a salary of $75K for family of four, long and short term happiness increases a lot with more money
After a salary of $75K, long term happiness increases are marginal or non-existent, short term increases in happiness do occur.
a sustainableequitableresilienthealthyhappyfuture
Measurements Matter
Answer: it already has
…by nation
Can Happiness be Measured?
Can Happiness be Measured?
Answer: YES
OECD’s Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being which documents the validity and the status of happiness measurements.
Where…is happiness measured?
Bhutan
Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product
Jigme Singye Wangchuk King of Bhutan 1972
Where Gross National Happiness Started
Genesis of the Nine Domains of GNH
Subjective and Objective indicators
Equal Weighting of Domains
Bhutan’s GNH report 2010What can Subjective and Objective Indicators tell us?
In the state of Gasa, people perceive themselves to have a similar standard of living to those in Thimphu
while the per capita income is lower.
What can Subjective and Objective Indicators tell us?
Few have perceive themselves to have a good understanding of climate change, and the majority
of waste disposal is through burning
Bhutan rates individuals by sufficiency
GNH Policy Screening Tool
rating of at least 3x number of
applicable factors for approval
by GNH Commission
some of the factors used for joining WTO decision
Brazil
where academics, grassroots activism and policy meet
Video of Felicidade Nacional Bruta in
Itapetininga, Brazil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPeNwH3ax-c&feature=youtu.be
UK
UK Office of Statistics
“To those who say this sounds like a distraction from the serious business of government, I say finding out what will improve lives and acting on it is the serious business of government.
"We'll continue to measure gross domestic product. But it is high time we admitted that, taken on its own, GDP is an incomplete way of measuring a country's progress.” – Prime Minister David Cameron
Surveyed 165,000 people between April 2011 and March 2012
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happinessan essay on how countries are measuring happinesshttp://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/jsc/vol8/iss1/5/
More about where…Happiness in Public Policy
an essay on how happiness is used to guide policyhttp://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/jsc/vol6/iss1/5/
Who’s Who
Martin SeligmanU of Penn Authentic Happiness Center
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
With Seligman – fathers of positive psychology movement
Sonja LyubomirskyPsychology Professor
The Stiglitz Report with Sen & FitoussiFormer Chief Economist for World Bank
Joseph Stiglitz
British Economist Inspiration for UK GovernmentFounder of Actions for Happiness
Richard Layard
EconomistColumbia U Earth Institute World Happiness ReportUN’s MDG Goals
Jeffrey Sacks
Dr. Happiness – PsychologistAdvisor to Gallup Researcher
Ed Diener
Economist at University BCCanada’s National Stats Council
John Helliwell
How…is happiness measured?
Measuring Happinessan essay about the international institutions measuring happiness
http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/jsc/vol7/iss1/3/
More about how…
More tools, knowledge and resourceswww.happycounts.org/happy-community-toolkit.html
thank you!
