The full paper submitted for the Fourth International Conference on Gross National Happiness can be downloaded from the following table

 


Sl. No. Title Author
1 Psychological and Subjective Well-being: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators Emma Samman
2 The Economics of Enough: Thailand’s ‘Sufficiency Economy’ Debate
Peter Warr
3 Western Education, Psychologized Individualism and Home/School Tensions: An American Example Andrie Kusserow
4 Good Organisational Practice and Gross National Happiness
A proposal for developing organisational performance indicators

Anne-Marie Schreven
5 Happiness Approach in an Award-winning Community Apivee Antarasena
6 Semantic Structure of GNH Carl Polley
7 Can Corporate Codes of Conduct Promote Labor Standards. Evidence from the Thai Footwear and Apparel Industries Junya Yimprasert and Christopher Candland
8 Nature Deficit and the Spirit of Wilderness Dave M. Augeri
9 Dynamic Aging Ethel Lowen
10 Gross Natural Happiness: Can we have both psychological and ecological well-being? George W. Burns
11 “Critical Holism”: A New Development Paradigm Inspired by Gross National Happiness? A contribution to the Global GDP Debate
Hans van Willenswaard
12 GNH Index Karma Ura
13 Gross National Happiness and Poverty in Bhutan: Preliminary Explorations using Pilot Data
Sabina Alkire, Maria Emma Santos & Karma Ura
14 Between Earth and Sky: Formal Organizations as Instruments in Creating
Gross National Happiness


John Nirenberg
15 The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies: A global movement for a global challenge Jon Hall
16 Japan’s Paradigm Shift from Growth to Happiness: Slowing Down to Advance Well Being Junko Edahiro and Riichiro Oda
17 Implementing Gross National Happiness—A Participatory Development
Communication Approach
KHAMPA
19 The Role of Meditation in achieving Gross National Happiness Khenpo Phuntsok Tashi
20 Socio - economic Analysis of Healthcare Sector Facilitating the Attainment of Gross National Happiness Selvaraj M, Lalitha Ramachandran, & Victor Devadoss
21 Conceptualising Education for Constitutional Monarchy System: Meiji Japan’s View and Approach Masanori Kakutani
22 Gross National Happiness in the Classroom – A Teacher’s Thoughts Meena Srinivasan
23

The Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy with Thai Classical Dance
for People Happiness

Pimana Thichalad & Chula Chanitwat
24 Optimal Condition of Happiness: Application of Taguchi Robust Parameter Design on Evidences from India
Prabhat Pankaj & Roma Mitra Debnath
25 Development as Happiness Prahlad Singh Shekhawat
26 The Nature-Nurture Debate: New evidence and good news Ragnhild Bang Nes
27 Negotiated collective inter-temporal decisions with heterogeneous inter-temporal preferences Ram Fishman
28 The Future of Gross National Happiness Ross McDonald
29 Elementary Education in Social Transformation and Happiness – Economics and Relevance: An Indian experience Saugata Bandyopadhyay
30 Estimation of Maximum Age Group of the Bhutanese’ Health and Wealth Status towards the progress of GNH Using Fuzzy Matrix Lalitha Ramachandran & Selvaraj M.
32 Public Responsiveness for Good Governance ~Analysis of Local Administration system in Bhutan with GNH angle~ Shuichi Hirayama
33 The Analysis of results of research into ‘The Ideal Society’ in Japan,
Sweden and Bhutan Using the Indicator of Human Satisfaction Measure: HSM
Terue Ohashi & Nobuyuki Kimata
34 Development and (Un)happiness: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia

Dena Freeman
35 GNH, a label for quality information Nille Van Hellemont
36 Food Security and Gross National Happiness Akiko Ueda
37 How does Sustainable Development in the Hotel Industry relate to Gros national happiness? Hans J Keller
38 Do Information and Communication Technologies Further or Hinder Gross National Happiness? Kezang & Jason Whalley
39 Buddhism Congruent Business Ethics Michita Champathes Rodsutti
40 Schools in Rural Areas and Gross National Happiness:
Endogenous Actions of Small Communities in Japan and Sweden

Michiyo Kiwako Okuma-Nyström
41 A Tale of Two Communities: Observations on Some Results on the Glace Bay and Kings Country GPI Surveys Michael Pennock, Martha Pennock & Ronald Colman
42 Religious Institution Based Community-hood and Identity of a ‘Muslim Community' in a ‘Remote’ Rural Village in Bangladesh Mohammed Kamruzzaman
43 Adolescent: Study Problems and Remedies in Cyber Era Nima M. Joseph
44 Sustainable livelihood and happiness generation in Minamata-city, Japan:
A model for endogenous community development

Takayoshi Kusago
45 Wastes Management For Bhutanese Happiness: Priority Should Be Public Awareness And Education Yeshey Penjor
46 “Lessons from ICT pilot projects in rural Haïti for sustainable economy with four inferred coefficients for the GNH index” Serge Miranda
47 Shift in the Measures of Quality of Life viz-a-viz Happiness - A Study of Phongmey Geog and Trashigang Town in Eastern Bhutan

Vijay Kumar Shrotryia
48 Internalizing the Other – Cross Cultural Understanding Sharon Lowen
49 A Peaceable Classroom? Towards a Pedagogy of Peace Marti Anderson
50 Achieving Happiness through the Economy of Communion Marilou A. Perez

 


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