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To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...
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The authors have studied the effects of global economic development on individuals and cultures for the last three decades and have concluded that the most strategic and effective way of building a more positive future is through economic localisation. Fundamentally, localisation is about...
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In den letzten Jahrzehnten griff die Staatsverschuldung in den meisten westlichen Staaten um sich wie ein wucherndes Krebsgeschw?r. Die Ereignisse im Zuge der Euro-Krise haben ein Schlaglicht auf die Gefahren dieser Entwicklung geworfen. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Frage, wie sich...
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This study undertakes a critical analysis of measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare from the perspective of political economy. One of the prime motivations for such an inquiry is that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) provides an inadequate measure of social and ecological...
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environments such as culture, race and religion. The growing interest ininvestigating the relation between psychographics and …
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Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This research provides a number of interesting...
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-06, Section: A, page: 2350.
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The paper aimed to provide additional insights into the wide and partly uncovered area of interactions among spirituality, happiness, life satisfaction and sustainability, supported by a survey representing the Hungarian society. As results reflect, spirituality definitely proves to matter in...
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A katolikus egyház a 19. század végétől egyre gyakrabban foglalkozott társadalmi kérdésekkel. Az erről szóló megnyilatkozások alapformáját a pápai enciklikák képezték. Ezek alapján kikristályosodott az egyház társadalmi tanítása, amely elsősorban a modern társadalom...
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Amint Magyarországon 2008-ban kinevezték a jövő nemzedékek ombudsmanját,1 mindjárt jelentős vitát is kavart az újdonsült országgyűlési biztos egy előadáson tett kijelentése.2 Ennek alapján úgy tűnt, hogy a jövő nemzedékeket immár hivatalosan is képviselő személy...
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