Μodern societies have taken a fundamentally wrong turn: policymakers, mainstream economists, and business leaders have consistently pushed us in the direction of ever more growth, while ignoring the ecological destruction and spiritual poverty that have been the price of rampant consumerism, massive scale, and escalating speed. There is a way out and a radically different paradigm is needed. Rather than attempting to solve every problem by "growing the economy", we need to focus instead on meeting real human and ecological needs through awakening to our spiritual ties to community and nature – through an "economics of happiness".
"The Economics of Happiness" features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance - and, far from the old institutions of power, they're starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm - an economics of localization.
You can watch a shortened version of the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyQaUDLW6ts
For the full movie, please click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theeconomicsofhappiness
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