Government-Enforced Happiness: Buddhist Ultilitarianism in Bhutan

Run­ning a coun­try is not easy. As hard as you try, you sim­ply can’t make every­one happy. Or can you? In the late Eigh­teenth cen­tury, Eng­lish­man Jeremy Ben­tham sug­gested a Util­i­tar­ian approach –gov­ern­ments should aim to bring the great­est hap­pi­ness to the great­est num­ber of peo­ple. His con­tem­po­raries in the New World agreed and declared “the […]