Lecture 5 - "Gross National Happiness"

This lecture originally airedon CBC Radio One on November 14, 2014.

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The Bhutanese have a principle of "Gross National Happiness" that places serious value on the harmonious well-being of people: it's a social good that's maybe even more important than economic growth. Three principles generosity, ethical behaviour, and tolerance drive the idea, which drives their concept of the good society. Happiness is related to your sense of yourself, and to knowing your place in society: to be fully an individual is to be fully living in society each shapes the other. It's the paradox of citizenship.

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