Home Technology Innovation Features Roundtables C-Suite Business Verticals Events Search

Autumn 2008

Greener Than Thou

With our species’ propensity for one-upmanship, it’s easy to fall in step with the holier-than-thou of the green brigade.

Environmentalists in search of happiness

DR IAN PLAYER Conservationst One of his proudest moments was – many years ago – taking Al Gore and his family into our South African bush and helping the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace prize appreciate the value of nature and our interconnectedness with it.

Environmentalis

The ecology of wellbeing

Just like any other ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM in the universe, our state of being feeds, and feeds off, the other systems around us.

THE

Nirmala Nair

Ubuntu: a key to happiness

We often talk of happiness and ubuntu in the same breath.

Ubuntu

Monwabisi Ralarala

Rain only falls into beauty

A reflection on HAPPINESS in TRADITIONAL African culture ANTHONY FITZHenry, CEO of Axiz, is one of my great inspirations.

Rain

Nicola Robins

People of faith

Many religions claim to have found clues to happiness, and most seem to concur that it entails some sort of balance, be it in giving and receiving or a congruence between nature, body, mind and soul.

People

The political economy of happiness

Cutting back on long working hours is easier said than done, but may be the key to a healthier, happier life.

THE

Richard Calland

SA’s happiness industry

Some say MONEY CAN’T BUY HAPPINESS while others think those people JUST DON’T KNOW WHERE TO SHOP.

Money

Kurt Ackermann

Money can’t buy you happiness ...or can it?

Early English utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham thought MONEY COULD BUY YOU HAPPINESS.

Money

Neil Horne

OBITUARY - Margaret Legum

Much loved and respected economist, social reformer, trainer, poet, wife, mother, grandmother and friend, Margaret Legum, died unexpectedly due to a complication while undergoing colon surgery at the end of last year.

Obituary

Setting the wrong targets

ECONOMICS HAS ALWAYS BEEN about measuring what goes into a process and what comes out, the object being to minimize the inputs, maximise the outputs and measure the Gross National Product (GNP) in order to calculate efficiency in the use of resources.

Setting

Margaret Legum

Measuring happiness

Trying to MEASURE something as ELUSIVE AS HAPPINESS may seem impossible, but it makes SOME PEOPLE HAPPY HUMAN BEINGS HAVE AN OBSESSION WITH MEASUREMENT.

Measuring

Kurt Ackermann