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Monster Essays - “Buddhist Economics”
“Buddhist Economics”
“He tends to count nothing as an expenditure, other than human effort...”,
this quote was used to describe the way a French political philosopher
characterized “Western man”. Bertrand de Jouvenel goes on to say, “He does
not seem to realize at all that human life is a dependent part of an
ecosystem of many different forms of life.” I strongly agree with both of
these assumptions in most cases.
I thought this essay was well written and gave many strong points. I
believe modern economists take many things for granted, even more so modern
Americans. Unlike the Buddhists most Americans have little or no rega....
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