Buddha, Wisdom and Economics: A Contribution to the Art of Happiness

What is it about?

My goal is neither to create a Buddhist economics nor to deviate from the purity of the Buddha’s perfect wisdom. Rather, my goal is to provide a forum in which Buddhism and economics can exchange their ideas with open and warm hearts. I hope each party will find much common sense in the other party when they put down this book for the last time. I feel this is an important task because it concerns the welfare of people, as for economists, or the suffering of sentient beings, as for the Buddhists.

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Why is it important?

Buddhism and economics, are indeed very different sciences or thought systems. However, after studying both subjects with sincerity for more than three decades, I find that they share a lot of common ground, or, put differently, many ideas can be shared between the two groups. This book will demonstrate that when the matters of markets, prices, interest rates, growth, poverty, and environmental protection are analyzed, the two thought systems share many common-sense ideas.

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