{"id":376,"date":"2016-09-30T14:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=376"},"modified":"2016-09-30T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:51:47","slug":"a-new-narrative-for-the-economics-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"A new narrative for the Economics of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>London 14th September 2016, Initiatives of Change center:<\/p>\n<div>At a recent workshop Helena Norberg-Hodge shared an alternative paradigm she calls the \u2018economics of happiness\u2019. Below is a trailer from a film Helena produced on the subject.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TRAILER- THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t5Xjr0gqJK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What if human well-being didn\u2019t have to be at the expense of the environment? What if we could simultaneously increase genuine prosperity,reduce social inequality, and tackle climate change? With some simple economic shifts, all this becomes possible. That\u2019s because so many of our current crises\u2014financial, social and ecological\u2014are linked to the scale of the economy. Localisation is a solution-multiplier that systemically reduces economic scale, creating benefits that ripple throughout society. In this day-long seminar, her talk highlighted human-scale economies and the steps\u2014at the community, national, and international levels\u2014that can bring us there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stephen Hinton provided his perspective from helping local initiatives in Sweden.<\/div>\n<p>[slideshare id=66411742&amp;doc=economicsofhappinesssummary-160926082905]<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localfutures.org\/\">Local Futures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.iofc.org\/go-local-counter-negative-effects-globalization\">Seminar Summary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London 14th September 2016, Initiatives of Change center: At a recent workshop Helena Norberg-Hodge shared an alternative paradigm she calls the \u2018economics of happiness\u2019. Below is a trailer from a film Helena produced on the subject. What if human well-being didn\u2019t have to be at the expense of the environment? What if we could simultaneously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new narrative for the Economics of Happiness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creating-peace","category-opinion","category-systemic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}