Serious About Happiness

In Ruchir Shama’s opinion piece last month, he wrote about recent efforts to move “beyond GDP” and introduce new measures into policymaking circles. Despite a combative headline and subheader, the article as a whole is thoughtful and overall fairly assesses…

This article was written by Celine Sugay and originally appeared on positivepsychology.com on 4/13/2021. Happiness continues to gain more and more attention as topics such as well-being and mental health become more popular. Companies all over the globe have started…

With lockdowns, political paralysis, physical separation from friends and family we want to hold, it’s hard to talk about much of good that has come out of these times.  However, we are learning some big lessons – the most important…

Gross National Happiness USA is part of the growing global happiness movement to put wellbeing at the center of our decision-making and policy discussions - at both the personal and systemic levels. One of the ways to accomplish this objective is…

There I was, just sitting in my apartment, daydreaming about what the US will be like after we replace Gross Domestic Product with Genuine Progress Indicator as our primary way to measure economic progress and happiness. All of the sudden…

By GNHUSA President Rob Moore When I was choosing between graduate programs five years ago, I recall having a phone conversation with a current graduate student at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. “So, do you ever talk about…

This morning, Gross National Happiness USA released a new report on North Carolina’s economic well-being as measured by the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), a comprehensive metric that accounts for environmental and social factors neglected by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This…