| Chapter |
Title |
Author |
Page No. |
| 1 |
Preface |
|
Vii |
| 2 |
Gross National Happiness and Development: An Essay |
Mark Mancall |
1 |
| 3 |
Trade, Development, and the Broken Promise of Interdependence: A Buddhist Reflection on the Possibility of Post-Market Economics |
Peter D. Herschock |
51 |
| 4 |
Towards an Economic of Happiness |
Helena Noberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick |
77 |
| 5 |
Improving Unsustainable Western Economic Systems |
Frank Dixon |
105 |
| 6 |
Operationalising Gross National Happiness |
Tracy Worcester |
121 |
| 7 |
Information and Communications Technology and Gross National Happiness – Who Serves Whom? |
Christopher B. Faris |
140 |
| 8 |
Cherry Picking in Bhutan |
Michael Rowbotham |
174 |
| 9 |
A Good Time for Gross National Happiness |
Rajni Bakshi |
200 |
| 10 |
Will ‘Middle Way Economics’ Emerge from the Gross National Happiness Approach of Bhutan? |
Hans van Willenswaard |
214 |
| 11 |
Gross National Happiness: Towards a New Paradigm in Economics |
Sander G. Tideman |
222 |
| 12 |
Small-scale Business Inspired by Timeless Simplicity: A Contribution Towards Gross National Happiness |
Wallapa Kuntiranont |
247 |
| 13 |
Measuring Genuine Progress – Indicators for Enlightened Society |
Ron Coleman and Julia Sagebien |
252 |
| 14 |
Bhutan’s Quadrilemma: To Join or Not to Join the WTO, That is the Question |
Mark Mancall |
260 |
| 15 |
Finding Happiness in Wisdom and Compassion – the Real Challenge for an Alternative Development Strategy |
Ross McDonald |
271 |
| 16 |
Happy Life Years: A Measure of Gross National Happiness |
Ruut Venhoven |
287 |
| 17 |
Towards Evidence Based Public Policy: The Power and Potential of using Well-being Indicators in a Political Context |
Nic Marks |
319 |
| 18 |
How Bhutan can Measure and Develop GNH |
Suellen Donnelly |
347 |
| 19 |
Measuring Individual Happiness in Relation to Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: Some Preliminary Results from Survey Data |
Prabhat Pankaj and Tshering Dorji |
375 |
| 20 |
National Happiness: Universalism, Cultural Relativism, or Both? An Assessment |
Chris Whitehouse and Thomas Winderl |
389 |
| 21 |
Adding Spirit to Economics |
Sulak Sivaraksa |
409 |
| 22 |
Happiness in the Midst of Change: A Human Development Approach to Studying GNH in the Context of Economic Development Happiness as the Greatest Human Wealth |
Michael Levensen etal |
419 |
| 23 |
Happiness as the Greatest Human Wealth |
Frank Bracho |
430 |
| 24 |
Quality and Sustainability of Life Indicators at International, National and Regional Levels |
Pavel Novacek etal |
450 |
| 25 |
Development as Freedom, Freedom as Happiness: Human Development and Happiness in Bhutan |
Joseph Johnson |
457 |
| 26 |
The Centrality of Buddhism and Education in Developing Gross National Happiness |
Dharmachari Lokamitra |
472 |
| 27 |
The Role of Buddhism in Achieving Gross National Happiness |
Khenpo Phuntsok Tashi |
483 |
| 28 |
Framework for Operationalizing the Buddhist Concept of Gross National Happiness |
Buddhadsa Hewavitharana |
496 |
| 29 |
Using Buddhist Insights in Implementing Gross National Happiness |
Jean Karel Hylkema |
532 |
| 30 |
The Characteristics and Levels of Happiness in the Context of the Bhutanese Society |
Karma Gayleg |
541 |
| 31 |
Prolegomena to Pursuing Gross National Happiness: The Bhutanese Approach |
Pema Tenzin |
555 |
| 32 |
Culture, Coping and Resilience to Stress |
Carolyn M. Aldwin |
563 |
| 33 |
Beyond Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Health for all Through Sustainable Community Development |
T. Thamrongwaranggoon |
574 |
| 34 |
Achieving Gross National Happiness Through Community –based Mental Health Services in Bhutan |
Chencho Dorji |
599 |
| 35 |
Literacy for All: One of the Means to Achieve Gross National Happiness |
Tashi Zangmo |
629 |
| 36 |
Tears and Laughter: Promoting Gross National Happiness Through the Rich Oral Traditions and Heritage of Bhutan |
Steven Evans |
637 |
| 37 |
One Big Happy Family? Gross National Happiness and the Concept of Family in Bhutan |
Linda Leaming |
660 |
| 38 |
Building the Fire: Preserving Local Knowledge and Traditions in the Face of Globalization |
Trudy Sable |
680 |
| 39 |
Be Decent Be Happy: Apprehending the Truth of Sustainable Happiness |
Wiboon Kemchalerm |
688 |
| 40 |
Relevance of Soils for Gross National Happinesss |
Thoma Caspari |
692 |
| 41 |
Putting Gross National Happiness in the Service of Good Development: From Ethics to Politics |
Johannes Hirata |
706 |
| 42 |
Foundations and Scope of Gross National Happiness: A Layman’s Perspective |
Thakur Singh Powdyel |
732 |
| 43 |
Notes on Contributors |
|
748 |
Publication Year: 2004