Sunday readings

In his first few years in power, the Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck "introduced the concept of Gross National Happiness, declaring that emotional well-being was as important as economic advancement... The policy of promoting GNH rather than GDP may well be easing Bhutan's passage into modernity: In the country's first census, conducted in 2005, fully 96 percent of Bhutanese reported being 'happy' or 'very happy' (The Atlantic, October 2007, pgs 142-143)."