The Economics of Happiness (2011)
67 min
'The Economics of Happiness' features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance - and, far from the old institutions of power, they're starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm - an economics of localization.
- Release date
- May 21, 2011
- Country of origin
- Japan, United States, France, United Kingdom, China, Germany, Australia, India, Nicaragua, Thailand
Trailer
Cast
- Jan Barham as Self
- Ronald Colman as Self
- Eliana Amparo Apaza Espillico as Self
- Zac Goldsmith as Self
- Daniel Greenberg as Self
- Clive Hamilton as Self
- Richard Heinberg as Self
- Rob Hopkins as Self
- Pracha Hutanuwatr as Self
- Chris Johnstone as Self
Crew
- Helena Norberg-Hodge · Writer
- Steven Gorelick · Writer
- John Page · Writer
- Helena Norberg-Hodge · Producer
- Army Armstrong · Editor
- Anna Fricke · Editor
- Meredith Holch · Editor