Comments on: Vanuatu: Islands of Fire or Heaven on Earth? http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/ Cato Institute Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 23:27:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » Vanuatu: Islands of Fire or Heaven on Earth? http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-236 Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » Vanuatu: Islands of Fire or Heaven on Earth? Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:48:07 +0000 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-236 [...] I’ve got a big post up at Cato@Liberty on the New Economics Foundation’s silly study claiming Vanuatu to be the happiest place on Earth. [...] […] I’ve got a big post up at Cato@Liberty on the New Economics Foundation’s silly study claiming Vanuatu to be the happiest place on Earth. […]

]]> By: catallaxy » CO2 emissions make you happy! http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-243 catallaxy » CO2 emissions make you happy! Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:37:27 +0000 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-243 [...] Well, at least according to this chart, which Cato’s Will Wilkinson links to as part of his nice demolition of the very dodgy Happy Planet Index that we discussed a few days ago. [...] […] Well, at least according to this chart, which Cato’s Will Wilkinson links to as part of his nice demolition of the very dodgy Happy Planet Index that we discussed a few days ago. […]

]]> By: PSD Blog - World Bank Group http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-254 PSD Blog - World Bank Group Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:47:09 +0000 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-254 <strong>What’s the unhappiest country?...</strong> Friends of the Earth have released The Happy Planet Index, an:Innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered around the world. It is the first ever index to combine environmental impact with well-be... What’s the unhappiest country?…

Friends of the Earth have released The Happy Planet Index, an:Innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered around the world. It is the first ever index to combine environmental impact with well-be…

]]> By: The Scriptorium » Disneyland No Longer “Happiest Place On Earth” http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-285 The Scriptorium » Disneyland No Longer “Happiest Place On Earth” Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:21:20 +0000 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/13/vanuatu-islands-of-fire-or-heaven-on-earth/#comment-285 [...] There is an egregiously dumb “study” out today that reports that Vanuatu—best known as a place to hide money from the taxman and the site of “Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire”—is the world’s happiest country. The real travesty is that this study is being reported by reputable news outlets as if it wasn’t just the product of a few ideologues making stuff up… But really! Multiply life expectancy by life satisfaction and divide it by environmental impact? That is, to be over-charitable, completely arbitrary. This is an index of, at best, the New Economic Foundation’s ideological preferences. It is a totally intellectually vacuous product meant to garner headlines, and it worked, to the shame of the Bloombergs and UPIs of the world. more [...] […] There is an egregiously dumb “study” out today that reports that Vanuatu—best known as a place to hide money from the taxman and the site of “Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire”—is the world’s happiest country. The real travesty is that this study is being reported by reputable news outlets as if it wasn’t just the product of a few ideologues making stuff up… But really! Multiply life expectancy by life satisfaction and divide it by environmental impact? That is, to be over-charitable, completely arbitrary. This is an index of, at best, the New Economic Foundation’s ideological preferences. It is a totally intellectually vacuous product meant to garner headlines, and it worked, to the shame of the Bloombergs and UPIs of the world. more […]

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