Table of Contents for “The
Economics of Happiness” |
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| Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... Foreword, by Herman Daly ............................................................................. Introduction .................................................................................................. Chapter 1: My Journey to Genuine Wealth ..................................................... Learning about natural capital and sustainability ............................................... Encouraged by pioneering reports ................................................................... Beginning the work in Canada ........................................................................ Chapter 2: The Language of Wealth and Economics ........................................ What is wealth?.............................................................................................. What is value? ............................................................................................... What does it mean to be genuine and have Genuine Wealth? ............................. What is an economy? ..................................................................................... Chrematistics (money) or oikonomia (life) ....................................................... What does it mean to be competitive? ............................................................. What is capital? ............................................................................................. Life capital .................................................................................................... Chapter 3: What’s Wrong with the Picture of Progress? ................................... The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) ............................................................. Making money, growing poorer ....................................................................... The Alberta GPI ............................................................................................. |
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| Chapter 4: A Renaissance in Economics and Capitalism .................................. Economic ethics of ancient Israel .................................................................... China’s xiaokang philosophy of moderation ..................................................... The European Middle Ages: An age of moderation ............................................ The birth of accounting: Luca Pacioli ................................................................ Awakening the true soul of capitalism?............................................................. Capitalism as a religion and spirit? .................................................................. A way forward .............................................................................................. Chapter 5: The Genuine Wealth Model ........................................................... Philosophical foundations ................................................................................ A practical tool for measuring well-being .......................................................... Examining our values, principles and virtues .................................................... What is the good life? ..................................................................................... A taxonomy of needs, wants, wealth and poverty ............................................. Distinguishing between means and ends .......................................................... The five capitals of Genuine Wealth ................................................................. Accounting for the five capitals of Genuine Wealth............................................. The Genuine Wealth Assessment life-cycle........................................................ Chapter 6: Personal Genuine Wealth ............................................................. Conducting a Personal Genuine Wealth Assessment........................................... Taking the Personal Genuine Wealth Survey ..................................................... What the Inuit taught me about genuine wealth ................................................ Why not ask the children?............................................................................... Kate Kaemerle’s story .................................................................................... My own story of Genuine Wealth ..................................................................... Your story ..................................................................................................... |
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| Chapter 7: The Genuine Wealth of Communities and Nations ........................... Finding genuine wealth in Leduc, Alberta .......................................................... Leduc Genuine Well-being indicators and indices ............................................... What I learned from Leduc.............................................................................. The wisdom and genuine wealth of the Inuit of Nunavut .................................... Santa Monica: A sustainable city in the making ................................................. China’s xiaokang society: An economy of moderation........................................ Emilia Romagna: An economy of cooperation.................................................... Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness .................................................................. A vision of an economy of Genuine Wealth for Canada ...................................... Canadian Index of Well-being: Measuring what matters .................................... Conclusion..................................................................................................... Chapter 8: Genuine Wealth for Business and Organizations ............................. |
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Chapter 9: Money and Genuine Wealth .......................................................... Epilogue ....................................................................................................... |
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