| 1 | Over the past decade, households' share of national income has declined by 10%. | |
| 2 | That is, niceness and its cousins are worth about 99.5 per cent of US national income. | |
| 3 | It sees a further small contraction in national income in 2010 but thinks a recovery should take hold during next year. | |
| 4 | On the contrary, it cuts down the national income by nearly as much as it cuts down consumption. | |
| 5 | Finally, the argument that there is more to a flourishing society than ever-increasing national income is also gaining ground among policymakers. |