Buddhist Economics
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I put this up here becaue i know some members and some visitors are interested in Buddhism. The interview does reveal a certain degree of overlap but we wouldn't expect 100% agreement with our Marxian economics, would we?
Quote:If we put people in the right social framework, their altruism and compassion will come out. But when we place people in this market economy, where everybody’s grabbing and grasping and comparing incomes, it’s much harder to think about anything other than yourself…Everyone needs to have a certain amount of consumption to have a comfortable life. They need food, water, shelter, health care, education. But once you’ve reached this basic standard, then you can think about creating a meaningful life through your interconnections—through helping others and enjoying and protecting nature.
As someone living in a "Buddhist" country, i find the article is the same pie in the sky pious hopes as expecting Christian values to determine the economics in Western cultures and by the end of the article it begins to read like an appeal for a "nicer" capitalism
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