The well-being paradox: We are getting richer, but not more satisfied

(Eindhoven University of Technology) For decades, there was a single main indicator of how countries were faring: Gross Domestic Product, and its growth. But what we earn does not say much about how healthy we are or about how we deplete minerals. Jan-Pieter Smits, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is the spiritual father of a new measuring instrument that gives policymakers a better understanding of what society is about. The statistics bureaus of 65 countries have already embraced it.

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