What Is Buddhist Economics?
Channel: The Other School
Date: 2020-12-03

What if getting more things doesn't make us happy, but ruins the planet, as well as ourselves? Should we then not consider wanting less?

Wolfgang Drechsler, a world-renowned expert on non-Western paradigms of governance, discusses Buddhist Economics as one of the original approaches critical of consumption. 

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More reading: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajes.12271

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