Check out this release by those "hippies greens" at Deutche Bank Research. (Warning - PDF file).

The note introduces these various measures of well-being:

GDP - Gross Domestic Product
Economic Well-Being
Living Conditions
Happiness

With a cool graphic to go with it all:



When I see stuff like this coming from one of the premier banks in the world, I know we are making progress with an integral world view.

Cross-posted at Zaadz.

Per has a good initial analysis here.

Here is the Amazon link.


cross-posted at Zaadz

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