As Singaporean reflects on where we want to go as a nation, perhaps its time to look back at where we have been before and how happiness and fulfilment has been sacrificed for GDP growth. German philosopher and conservationists E.F. Schumacher (died 1977) puts it brilliantly in his 1966 groundbreaking essay "Buddhist Economics"
http://buddhism.about.com/gi/o.htm?...beautiful.org/buddhist_economics/english.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RebfgHCfrmw
http://buddhism.about.com/gi/o.htm?...beautiful.org/buddhist_economics/english.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RebfgHCfrmw
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