THE IMPORTANCE OF BUDDHIST ECONOMICS AND OTHER NEOTRADITIONAL APPROACHES AFTER THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
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Economics, Political Economy, Financial Meltdown, Political AlternativesAbstract
The following paper is the text of a lecture written for the 2nd International conference of the Buddhist Economics Research Platform to be held at Ubon Ratchathani University, Warin Chamrab, Ubon Ratchathani Thailand April 9-11, 2009. The key theme of the paper is that the transition towards a post-industrial economy, which is increasingly based on the creation of non-material value, reconnects us in some ways to premodern conceptions of society and economics, which may therefore inspire us for a critical examination of current economic and political arrangements, which were inevitably based on the primacy of material production. The paper brings a number of arguments, why such an examination of premodern conceptions of human life, may be fruitful.
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