Bhutan focuses on "gross national happiness" not GNP

Craig says: "[NYT] article on Bhuddist economics in the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. A nice example of someone making sense:

Around the world, a growing number of economists, social scientists, corporate leaders and bureaucrats are trying to develop measurements that take into account not just the flow of money but also access to health care, free time with family, conservation of natural resources and other noneconomic factors.

The goal, according to many involved in this effort, is in part to return to a richer definition of the word happiness, more like what the signers of the Declaration of Independence had in mind when they included "the pursuit of happiness" as an inalienable right equal to liberty and life itself.

Link (thanks, Craig!)