This spring, Professor Kurtz is teaching a new course, Socioeconomics of Happiness: Creating a New Global Economic Paradigm (SOCI 395). The “Socioeconomics of Happiness” explores the theory and social movement to replace the current failed economic paradigm based on GDP growth and the concentration of wealth with a new one based on the happiness and wellbeing of all life in the world. This movement, initiated by Bhutan and a meeting at the United Nations in April, 2012, combines a grassroots mobilization of people power to envision and implement a new economic paradigm with a high-level mobilization of United Nations-related institutions in which people advocate an economic transformation.
The course uses interdisciplinary tools from the social sciences and humanities to examine as objectively as possible the deficiency of the current system and proposed alternatives emerging in civil society, academia and some policy circles.
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January 08, 2013
