to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …

happiness. Under the influence of global consumer culture, people believe that the more they consume the happier they will be … achieving same or less happiness. This is neither desirable nor sustainable. Therefore, there is an urgent need to examine and … modify the current hedonic happiness model, which is based on always more consumption, in order to achieve more happiness …

satisfaction and happiness index) does not change the nature of the results. The findings arguably strengthen the case for a ‘new … life satisfaction across fifty-eight developed and developing countries, using natural capital data from the World Bank … includes major macro-level determinants of life satisfaction (i.e. GNI per capita, social capital, income distribution …