摘要
你一定听说过GDP（国民生产总值），那你听说过GNH（国民幸福总值）吗？早在1972年，不丹前国王就提出了这·术语，为的是更全面地评价国民生活质量，强调精神与物质的同步发展。然而，幸福究竟是什么？即便在幸福经济学逐渐受到重视的今天，由于幸福的悖论以及“幸福”这一概念的虚无缥缈，以幸福为目标的政策依旧寸步难行：不过，一个国家能有这样的目标，听起来也多少会让人感到幸福吧？
While we can quantify things such as gross domestic product or home tbreclosures^1）, it＇s harder to measure their impact on our collective happiness. One way to gauge^2）＇ that effect is through what has become known as the economics of happiness--a set of new techniques and data to measure well-being and contentment. Hundreds of thousands of people are surveyed and asked how happy or satisfied they are with their lives, with possible answers on a scale between very unhappy and very happy.
