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An Economy of Well-Being

Common-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness

In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics? In An Economy of Well-being, author Mark Anielski presents a practical guide for building a new economy of well-being to help communities and nations become more flourishing and happier places to live. In this follow-up to his best-selling The Economics of Happiness, Anielski addresses key questions including: * How can our personal and family assets be strengthened for a more fulfilling life of meaning and purpose? * How can neighborhoods and cities become flourishing economies of well-being by making the best of abundant community assets? * how can an organizations, communities and financial institutions measure, manage and finance assets to achieve high levels of well-being? An Economy of Well-being responds to a common yearning for common-sense tools to orient our lives, our businesses, and our communities towards well-being. This is ideal reading for anyone who wishes to contribute to building happier, more mindful communities, and ultimately lives of joy and meaning.

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Mark Anielski

Mark Anielski is President and Chief Well-being Officer at Anielski Management Inc. He consults and speaks internationally on merging and measuring happiness, well-being and economics, including at Harvard, the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, the University of Texas in El Paso, the Harbin Institute of Technology in China, Shanghai Normal University, University of Alberta, and the School of Business in Innsbruck, Austria. He has served as an economic advisor to China and Bhutan in their efforts to adopt new measures of well-being and happiness. He is the author of the award-winning The Economics of Happiness. He lives in Alberta, Canada with his family.

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This book is meant to engender hope that a dark age ahead can be avoided and the current system of economic malaise transcended with a more compelling economic future based on the goal of … 8 $0.80

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* Reclaiming the Language of Economics * Happiness: Well-Being of Spirit * A New Index of Well-Being * Measuring Well-Being Objectively * Alberta’s Economic Growth, Disease and Income … 30 $3.00

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* Can Well-Being Be Measured? * The Science of Well-Being: What We Measure Affects What We Do * Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and an Indigenous Model of Well-Being * The Util: Measuring Real … 26 $2.60

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* Back to Edmonton: The City that Could * The Promise of Alberta * Alberta’s Preliminary Asset Accounts 18 $1.80

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* The Edmonton Social Health Index * Measuring the Well-Being of Valleyview, Alberta * Edmonton’s Well-Being Index and Measuring the Well-Being Return on Taxes * Community Asset and … 23 $2.30

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* Measuring What Matters to Community Well-Being * Why a Community Asset Assessment? * Natural Capital Assessment * The Well-Being Community Planning Process * Benefits of a Well-Being-Based … 15 $1.50

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* Well-Being at Work * Businesses That Operate on Well-Being Principles * The Well-Being Corporation * Doing Well By Doing Good: The Flourishing Well-Being Enterprise * Well-Being: The Best … 16 $1.60

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* The Origins of Auditing * Toward Quality-of-Life Auditing and Accounting * Well-Being Inventory * Five Assets of Enterprise Well-Being * Measuring Workplace Well-Being * Enterprise Well-Being … 22 $2.20

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* Virtuous Financial Leadership * Lintel Capital LLC: Investment for Good * Well-Being Impact Investment Funds * And the Times, They are a-Changin’ 9 $0.90

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* Eliminating Poverty in Cincinnati within a Generation 10 $1.00

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* All Roads Lead to London: The Queen’s Banker’s Wife * Freeing Economies of the Burden of Interest from Debt-Based Money * A Public Bank for Well-Being * What is a Public Bank and … 22 $2.20

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* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness 8 $0.80

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Building the new economy of well-being represents one of the most important new economic paradigm shifts of our time, at a time when the world most needs an alternative to the current financial … 3 $0.30