Sarkozy Wants Happiness Used as Economic Indicator

Sarkozy Wants Happiness Used as Economic Indicator – Economy * Europe * News * Story – CNBC.com.

FROM THE ARTICLE: France plans to include happiness and well-being in its measurements of economic progress, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday, beckoning other countries to join in a “revolution” in the way growth is tracked after the global economic crisis.

France will adapt its statistical toolbox as recommended by two Nobel economists whom Sarkozy commissioned 18 months ago to analyze new ways of measuring social progress, he said in a speech in Paris on the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

COMMENT: Actually…this doesn’t sound so ridiculous.  I know I’m more productive when I’m in a happier mood.  Hmph.

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