Can money buy happiness?
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About the video: ‘Can money buy happiness?’
Manfred Max-Neef believes that economists are fixated with growth for growth’s sake. As a result, they overlook the qualitative values essential to human development. Whereas growth is quantitative, qualitative values leading to the development of human well-being and happiness are harder to measure but of equal importance. Max-Neef reminds us that while measurement is essential, we must not be led to believe that only those things which can be measured have value. The fragmentation philosophy that separates us needs to be replaced by a holistic philosophy of integration and inter-connectedness.
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Filmed: Geneva, Switzerland on 21 May 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell, Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Manfred Max-Neef
Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean economist widely respected for his work on international development. In 1981 he wrote the book for which he is best known, ‘From the Outside Looking in: Experiences in Barefoot Economics’, which describes his experiences practising economics among the poor in South America.
In the same year he founded the Centre for Development Alternatives (CEPAUR).
In 1983, Max-Neef won the Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Prize for his work in poverty-stricken areas of developing countries.
Until 2001 he has been Rector of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia.
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