The world already has a post-growth society, albeit an unintentional one: Japan hasn’t grown for the better part of twenty years.
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Some voices in Asia are questioning the meaning of GDP—and the wisdom of measuring success through its lens.
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Even Ben Bernanke knows money doesn’t equal happiness.
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In China, entire cities are being built for no one. A likely reason: GDP growth.
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The virtual omnipresence of the internet (no pun intended) has altered the way humanity interacts in absolutely unbelievable ways. Two years ago I was working hard in my nine-to-five job, trying to pay down my school debt and keep up with the grind, when I started writing on a virtually unheard of topic in mainstream [...]
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“In the next ten years we shall increase our wealth by fifty percent. The profound question is – does this mean that we will be fifty percent richer in a real sense, fifty percent better off, fifty percent happier?”
Excerpt from the Chafee Memorial Lecture given at the New Green Economy Conference in Washington, DC.
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photo © 2008 Brooks Elliott | more info (via: Wylio) What makes you feel as though you are progressing in life? Do you measure your success by the dollars in the bank? Perhaps you count the amount of cars you own, or boats, or socks, or elephants? Here’s a radical idea – do you measure [...]
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