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What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades psychologists & economists have learned a lot about who's happy & who isn't The Dutch are the Romanians aren't & Americans are somewhere in between After years of going to the world's least happy countries Eric Weiner a veteran foreign correspondent decided to travel & evaluate each country's different sense of happiness & discover the nation that seemed happiest of all He discovers the relationship between money & happiness in tiny & extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) He goes to Thailand & finds that not thinking is a contented way of life He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan & discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places he eats rotten Icelandic shark meditates in Bangalore visits strip clubs in Bangkok & drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik Full of inspired moments The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare & even fewer achieve to make you happier

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