"The World of Happiness Report" Part 2

In John Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs report: “The World of Happiness Report" part 2 (2012), they go on to discuss how policy making should be changed if the greater goal were to be world happiness. They also go back to elaborate on the evidence from chapter one, and they also discuss the new policy priorities. They made this to elaborate on the previous chapter, and to discuss other objectives that contribute to happiness. We believe the intended audience is anyone who wants world happiness or is for it.

Reading this at first was a little confusing, but after remembering what explained to us about the world’s happiness and overall well-being as we continued to read. We were able to understand that GNP is a valuable goal, but should not be pursed to the point where economic stability is put in jeopardy and that basic living standards are essential for happiness. Also we believe this is very informative for people who want to purse world happiness or is already.

We believe the main focus of the second part report was to give a deeper analysis on what was said in the first part. Mostly about overall happiness and well-being of the world and the people who live in. Also they inform us on some new policies while giving us some information on GDP and how it is important. They state “The first lesson of happiness research is that GDP is valuable goal but that other things also matter greatly” (103). Basically there saying it’s ok to purse GDP but not to the point where economic stability is imperiled.