| The Economics of Happiness | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Steven Gorelick Helena Norberg-Hodge John Page |
| Produced by | Helena Norberg-Hodge |
| Narrated by | John Page |
| Music by | Florian Fricke |
| Editing by | Anna Fricke Army Armstrong Meredith Holch |
| Release date(s) | January 11, 2011[1] |
| Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
The Economics of Happiness is a 2011 documentary film directed by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, and John Page, and produced by the International Society for Ecology and Culture. It has won "Best in Show" at the Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival, and an "Award of Merit" from the Accolade Film Festival.
The film features many voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. While government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power, people around the world are resisting those policies and working to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm: an economics of localization.