“Gross National Product (GDP) has long been the yardstick by which economies and politicians have been measured. Yet it fails to take into account the social and environmental costs of so-called progress,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters in New York.
I am very very excited about what the United Nations is doing with happiness. On April 2, 2012, government representatives and happiness experts and leaders all over the world met at the UN Headquarters in New York for a meeting entitled Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm. Read more about it here.
The meeting resulted in the release of the inaugural World Happiness Report, a 150-page document that talks about the causes of happiness, policy implications, and some case studies. For those of you who’s too lazy to read a 150-page document, I’ve posted a summary after the jump. (I haven’t read it either. I just found a summary online. heh.)
A Universe Within: My Spiritual Journey 