If welfare doesn’t mean well-being, what’s the right definition for Development?
Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 3, 2010 under Interviews, News | 
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“There’s a strong relationship between the increase of social and environmental deterioration and the increase of economy, i.e. increase of GDP” – says Stefano Bartolini, Professor of Politic Economy at University of Siena (Italy) and writer of the book recently published “Manifesto per la felicità, Come passare dalla società del ben – avere a quella del ben – essere (2010, pp. XIV-306, Ed. Saggine)” – Manifest for Happiness, How to change from a society of material-well being to a society of social -well being.
“In such a case, you are daily induced to afford new expenditures, in order to fill your own hole” – he explains – ” which increase the value of GDP but doesn’t improve the quality of life. On the contrary, it gets worse and worse, as the so-called relational goods proportionally reduce more and more. Welfare doesn’t mean well – being”. If it is so, what may be nowadays the right definition for Development? And what are the action plans to successfully implement a complete Development in our societies?
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Stefano De Santis said,
An interesting debate on these topics was organized by the Economist.
http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/171&sa_campaign=debateseries/debate48/ads/house/160
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