Flourishing in Canada: How to Get the Good Life

Flourishing in Canada: How to Get the Good Life challenges a widely accepted assumption that economic growth automatically leads to better lives. Despite decades of rising GDP, technological progress, and expanding opportunity, people in advanced, liberal societies experience a number of alienating realities. They struggle with competitive work pressure as well as both economic and social insecurity that subvert balance in life. The problem lies not in a lack of material progress, which the dominant GDP lens is efficient to measure in a global sense, but in our failure to recognize the purpose of an economy, which is to foster flourishing for people, human beings, across a number of domains. When GDP becomes the dominant metric, it becomes the goal of the economy, rewarding activity that undermines the very conditions needed to thrive. Flourishing, therefore, is properly both the purpose and the measure of a successful society. Grounded in human dignity, flourishing depends on three essential capabilities: autonomy, connection, and resilience. By examining competition, education, income, health care, and access to time and culture, the authors outline how economic and social systems can be redesigned to support prosperity and authentic flourishing for all.
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Author/Artist:Nevin, Andrew S.|Neill, Elizabeth
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