.... F. Schumacher’s ( 1974) essay on Buddhist economics. Joseph Schumpeter had the breadth of vision necessary for the task but in the opening sections of his great work (1954), he carefully and surely consciously limits the scope of his inquiry to exclude the nonsecular. This broader...

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... and beginning of the twentieth century, the so-called belle ipoque. As for Schumacher, he draws a contrast between present-day society, with its materialistic ideals, and something he calls “Buddhist economics.” In present-day capitalist society, he writes, the entrepreneur aims at reduc- ing...

... / Introduction 375 farm management), mercantilism and Cameralism, Colbertism, Econo- mia Civile, and so forth not to speak of non-European contributions to economics, such as Chinese, Indian, or Buddhist economics are often dismissed, ignored, or considered as Sonderwege, epistemic aberrations or dead ends; one...

... on Buddhist thought, rejecting the traditional ethical emphasis. He documents Buddhist concerns with the full range of life including enterprise and efficiency. His chapter on Kautilya’s Arthashastra, the manual for governmental administration dating from the late fourth century B.c., cites recent...

... religiously eclectic Japanese friends and relatives celebrate quasi-Shinto weddings, quasi-Buddhist funerals, and quasi-Christian Christmases, and so do 1 in their company. Why should I not combine semi-classical macroeconomics and semi-neoclassical micro- economics with equal alacrity, until...

... will change, only when we begin to question the appropriateness of the ends as well as the means. Schumacher’s teleology The new meta-economic view (derived from Buddhist philosophy) which Schumacher advocates revolves around the concept of right livelihood, a sort of ‘middle way,’ which has...

... in Vermont, the Nearings moved further north to Maine. Two years later, the year in which his long-incapacitated wife died, Gregg published Self-Transcendence , which drew on Christian, Hindu, and especially Buddhist teachings on the matter. By 1956, he had remarried—Evelyn Speiden, a woman long interested...

... cannot bring myself to discard either system root-and-branch, or pledge exclusive allegiance to the other. My religiously eclectic Japanese friends and relatives celebrate quasi-Shinto weddings, quasi-Buddhist funerals, and quasi-Christian Christmases, and so do 1 in their company. Why should...

... are diverse, the editors state in their introduction, and continue: They include a Soviet game theorist and a Liberian president; wives of noted 19th-century economists and Buddhist nuns from millennia past; many a Ph.D. and some self-edu- cated at home; revolutionaries, terrorists, even an assassin...

... elements. Local weight will be greater in with its traditional value sys- tems-Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist-and their supporting literature and priestcraft, than in African states into whose cultures these value systems have not become embedded. But everywhere the secular administrative...

... (of the hermit), can be mapped onto this cuboid space. The five regions represent the extreme positions.22 1. Zero group-zero grid-zero power. This is the position of the hermit, the autonomous individual. Members of the Sherpa- Buddhist community may be located here.23 2. Negative group...

.... Chen also identifies a problem with “others”—Daoists and Buddhists—whom he indicts with disregarding “material welfare” and acting as the “parasites of society,” thereby retarding economic development ( Principles : 718, 721). 32. This position was repeated after Chen’s return to China...

... of virtues instead of merely to one. And in the section 6 added in 1790 he argues against the specialized excesses of Stoic insensibility, or what we would now call Buddhist disengagement from the world. He recommends instead an active virtue, “that keen and earnest attention to the propriety of our...