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    The theories of both Michael Porter and Gary Hamel have changed that way organisations strive for competitive advantage. Their ideas on competitive strategy and management innovation are now seen as essential transformational tools for businesses looking to deliver profitable growth for its stakeholders. Michael E. Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy‚ the competitiveness and economic development of nations‚ states‚ and regions‚ and the application of competitive principles to

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    In fact‚ he is against the Easterlin paradox about happiness. Leonhardt’s article used a lot of supporting strategies to support his argument such as polls‚ studies from two economists‚ newspapers‚ and statistics. However‚ despite his arguments were slightly convincing but he failed to

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    References: Easterlin‚ R. (2010). “The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited.” PNAS‚ Vol. 107‚ No 52. Retrieved from: http://www.pnas.org/content/107/52/22463.full Gupta‚ B. (2006). “Bhagavad Ghita” as Duty and Virtue Ethics: Some Reflections. The Journal of Religious Ethics. Vol. 34‚ No 3

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    He starts off by explaining how an increase in the level of economic growth does not necessarily lead to more happiness. According to the Easterlin paradox‚ from the late 1950s to the early 70s‚ people were richer but not any happier. Economist Richard Easterlin published a study where he argues that at times of economic growth‚ satisfaction levels don’t increase in correspondence to the increase in national wealth. The only time people truly become

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    PROBLEM 1) Why brilliant people with more money than they’ll ever need allow their hunger for even more money to cause them to lose everything? 2) How much is enough‚ and why are people willing to risk so much to get more? 3) If money is so alluring‚ how is it that so many people of great wealth also seem so unhappy? CAUSE The single-minded pursuit of wealth often leads smart people to do incredibly stupid things‚ things that destroy what money can’t buy. Examples given in the article: Raj

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    relationship between prosperity and well-being was done by the economist Richard Easterlin‚ who in 1974 wrote a famous paper entitled “Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot?” Easterlin showed that when in came to developed countries‚ there was no real correlation between a nation’s income level and its citizens’ happiness. Money‚ Easterlin argued‚ could not buy happiness – at least not after a certain point. Easterlin showed that through poverty was solidly middle-class‚

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    everybody would also raise the happiness of everybody. The intuition would say ’yes’ but this however is not the reality. One’s own welfare often depends on the welfare of others because people always compare themselves with their social environment (Easterlin‚ 1994). Life satisfaction originates through a “good life“ but if the level of well-being of the others also increases‚ one feels equal or even less satisfied (Frey‚ 2008). Increasing everybody’s income would not increase everybody’s happiness

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    Does Economic Wealth Lead To Well-being? In 1974‚ USC Professor Easterlin put forward that within a country the rich have higher average subjective well-being (SWB) than the poor. Nevertheless‚ the average SWB is uncorrelated with income between rich countries and poor countries. For example‚ the Gallup poll of 2012 well-being from Livescience website (2011) shows that Panama has 61% of people who said they are thriving‚ which had a greater score than the USA. The modern economy based on the opinion

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    Gross Domestic Happiness: What Is the Relationship between Money and Well-being?: Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2675) Gross Domestic Happiness: What Is the Relationship between Money and Well-being? Published : January 19‚ 2011 in Knowledge@Wharton Most of us have seen the bumper sticker: "Anyone who says money can ’t buy happiness just doesn ’t know where to shop." It ’s an amusing sentiment‚ but it provokes an important question: What exactly

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    SUMMARY OF WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2013 WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2013 was edited by John Helliwell‚ Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs In July 2011 the UN General Assembly passed a historic resolution. It invited member countries to measure the happiness of their people and to use this to help guide their public policies. The first WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT was published in 2012. The need is a rising worldwide demand that policy framing must be closer to issues that really matters to people as perceived

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