Maximizing GDP growth will no longer be the top priority rather, it should be something we might want to call happiness, or well being, or the good life.

Social Choice and Social Welfare

Absent from this list, and absent from any discussions of happiness, are happiness in another's happiness.

Does money bring happiness?

And what is happiness?

British Prime Minister David Cameron introduced the measurement of happiness into national statistics, and more recently German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched a program to promote citizen s wellbeing.

To happiness.

Everybody seeks happiness.

Everyone seeks happiness.

Money doesn't buy happiness.

Can money buy happiness?

Can money buy happiness?

Or happiness Striving toward happiness moving toward unhappiness.

Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity instead of by the happiness and well being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well being against resource use . Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised.

Establishment of a new balance between Europe and the South also involves the Community internally.

You may have heard, this last fall Nicolas Sarkozy in France announcing the results of an 18 month study by two Nobel economists, focusing on happiness and wellness in France.

I deserve happiness.

Money cannot buy happiness.

Money can't buy happiness.

And in South Africa, they associate happiness with seriti or community respect.

Surely with hardship there is ease.

With hardship indeed there is ease.

So indeed with hardship is ease.

Indeed with hardship is ease.

So truly with hardship comes ease,

truly with hardship comes ease.'

Then verily along with every hardship is ease.

Verily along with every hardship is ease.

So verily, with the hardship, there is relief,

Verily, with the hardship, there is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).

With hardship comes ease.

Indeed, there is ease with hardship.

Most certainly, there is ease with hardship.

But lo! with hardship goeth ease,

Lo! with hardship goeth ease

Indeed ease accompanies hardship.

Indeed, hardship is followed by ease,

indeed, hardship is followed by ease!

For indeed, with hardship will be ease.

Indeed, with hardship will be ease.

After every difficulty there is relief.

Certainly, after every difficulty there comes relief.

Surely with difficulty is ease.

With difficulty is surely ease.

So, surely with every hardship there is ease