BY Jennifer Prediger
grist
4 FEB 2011
What if GDP stood for Great Domestic Pleasantness? How about an economy whose success is not determined by growth for growth’s sake? A new documentary, The Economics of Happiness, explores this rich territory.
The film makes a connection between the economic crisis, the environment, and a “crisis of the human spirit”—the reality that even as our material wealth has increased, we have not gotten happier. According to a study cited by author and 350.org activist (and Grist Board member) Bill McKibben, people in the United States have actually become less happy since the 1950s...
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