The New Economics Forum was searching for a press hit, it is a shame NY Times is confirming this truthiness[1] As evidence see :: http://heavylifting.blogspot

The New Economics Forum was searching for a press hit, it is a shame NY Times is confirming this truthiness[1] As evidence see :: http://heavylifting.blogspot.com/2006/07/on-happy-planet-index.html http://heavylifting.blogspot.com/2006/07/on-happy-planet-ind... and especially the comment from the NEF itself sam.thompson@neweconomics.org "However, I thought your piece was thoughtful and interesting, so I just wanted to make one point, which is that we don't claim that the index measures happiness (we emphasise several times, in fact, that it doesn't). Rather, we claim that it measures well-being efficiency: that is, the relative 'price paid' for experienced well-being by countries as a function of their resource consumption." "To an extent we asked for this kind of (mis)interpretation by using the word 'happy' in the title of the report - we have wondered, with hindsight, whether this was such a good idea. The trade off is that we got a huge (and 95% positive) press hit - and that's all part of the game too.." ---------- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness