Reclaiming Economics for Happiness

From: An Economy of Well-Being

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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 Inequality * Exposing the Myth of Productivity * Measuring Happiness is All the Rage * People Prefer Happiness Over Wealth * Who Are the Happiest Canadians of All? * Happiness as the Ultimate Objective of Economic Development * From Financial Capitalism to Well-Being * Drowning in Debt * The Inconvenient Truth: How the Hidden Costs of Debt are Killing American Happiness * The Path Ahead

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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.