The Economics of Happiness is a 2011 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 directed by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide, a pioneer of the localisation movement, and the articulator of the core ideas of Counter-development...

, Steven Gorelick, and John Page, and produced by the International Society for Ecology and Culture

International Society for Ecology and Culture

The International Society for Ecology and Culture is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to raise awareness about what it identifies as the root causes of contemporary social, environmental and economic crises....

. It has won "Best in Show" at the Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival, and an "Award of Merit" from the Accolade Film Festival.

Synopsis

The film features many voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. While government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power, people around the world are resisting those policies and working 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.

External links

• Helena Norberg-Hodge at Counter Currents
• Norberg-Hodge on the film