French use happiness as economic measure
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What price happiness? French President Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking an answer to the eternal question Â so that happiness can be included in measurements of French economic growth.
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What makes people happy often has little to do with what people say makes them happy, new psychological research has found. A poor night&#39;s sleep and time pressures at work are among the most powerful downers.
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Brian France has to be the happiest, most satisfied man in the sports world today. For now, France looks like a genius, a man of vision who has a firm grasp on what his sport needs to succeed.
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The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy.
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French growth improves at the end of 2004, new figures show, but not by enough to fulfil government hopes.
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Researchers in Nottingham discover that, contrary to the saying, money can buy you happiness.
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Choosing your investments can be a way to express your personal values.
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Britain is now a society transfixed by the delights of leisure and travel, new figures show
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A simple, two-step plan to help us all retire happy and wealthy.
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Exports of Bordeaux wine rose last year, making viticulturists in France optimistic about the prospect of a bounceback in the sector.
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Probing the depths of spending psychology.
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Reminding oneself when anticipating a windfall that money might buy happiness, but only at a cost.
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This country does not look like a country in economic trouble.
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France feasted Friday on good economic news as its jobless rate slipped below two million for the first time in 25 years and consumer spending helped the economy grow by 0.5 percent in the first quarter.
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.
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Will investors and consumers stay satisfied?
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France's economy grew by a 0.5 percent in the first quarter, the state statistics agency said Friday, thanks in part to a pickup in consumer spending. But the growth was slower than the 0.6 percent expansion forecast by analysts.