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Measuring National Happiness

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May 27, 2011
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Nearly three years ago Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the fourth King of Bhutan, inaugurated his Gross National Happiness Index instead of the more common gross domestic product to measure social, economic and political changes in his isolated Himalayan Shangri-la.

Now the 34-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – the OECD – seems to ha…

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