WELL-BEING AND HAPPINESS—AN ATTEMPT AT DEFINITIONS
These days, there seems to be a growing consensus that the old measurements that nations have used to evaluate economic success—most notably, the Gross Domestic Product—are blunt swords which tell us little about quality of life. Around the world, many countries are looking for new metrics. In October, I joined 1400 people from 60 countries at the OECD’s annual Measuring Well-...