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The Real Economy by Dr. Robert Costanza
(Apr 09, 2010)
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Stories about the economy typically focus on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), jobs, stock prices, interest rates, retail sales, consumer confidence, housing starts, taxes, and assorted other indicators. We hear things like “GDP grew at a 3% rate in the fourth quarter, indicating a recovering, healthy e...
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G.D.P. R.I.P. by Eric Zencey
(Apr 09, 2010)
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IF there’s a silver lining to our current economic downturn, it’s this: With it comes what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called “creative destruction,” the failure of outmoded economic
structures and their replacement by new, more suitable Structures. Downturns have often given a last, fatality...
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GNH comes home
(Dec 08, 2008)
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26 November, 2008 - The international GNH community has descended on Thimphu this week for the fourth international GNH conference. This is a response to a resounding call for GNH conferences to return to Bhutan at a time when they are being taken around the world.
Now that it is here what sh...
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Substantiating GNH
(Dec 08, 2008)
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26 November, 2008 - “Is it enough for us to know how to measure happiness and to hope that this will influence policy-making? Is making Gross National Happiness (GNH) policies and programmes enough? What of political will and capacity, given the fact that these, in a democracy, are responses conditi...
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Gross National Happiness: Heavier than a mountain
(Dec 08, 2008)
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29 November, 2008 - GNH is the expression of a system of values that defined the Bhutanese system over centuries. Today, Bhutan articulates the need to preserve such traditions and values on the premise that what we have is good and should be preserved through change.
Having opened up to so-c...
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Weighing up WTO versus GNH
(Dec 08, 2008)
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Are the two concepts irreconcilable?
OUTLOOK 8 December, 2008 - Free trade, an economist once remarked, means that a great product from a small country can succeed in global competition. Free trade means that poor countries can sell their products, for instance textiles, to the rich world wit...
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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
(Sep 10, 2008)
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The 4th International Conference on Gross National Happiness
The Centre for Bhutan Studies (CBS) is pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Gross National Happiness, from November 24 to 26, 2008.
The conference will focus on themes related to GNH such as psychology, env...
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First Prize Winning Essay on GNH & Human Rights
(Jul 14, 2008)
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1st Prize
of the Essay Competition on Gross National Happiness and Human Rights
Organized by the Centre for Bhutan Studies and the UN System in Bhutan to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration ...
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The balanced path of GNH
(Jun 24, 2008)
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21 June, 2008 - "We’ve a very special event with very special people here today.”
The speaker was the president of the Asia Society, Dr Vishakha N Desai. The special event was a discussion on Gross National Happiness and a mask dance programme held at Asia Society’s head office in New York. ...
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(From Bhutan Observer)Excavating history
(Jun 18, 2008)
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Thimphu:15 June 2007 Bhutanese scholars and researchers can now have freer access to the libraries and archives of Cambridge University in Britain and the latter can also access the archives in Bhutan following an agreement on academic cooperation between the Centre for Bhutan Studies (CBS) and the ...
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