Joel Magnuson

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The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics (2022)Hardcover - 2022, 18 March 2022

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Part of Series
Studies in Buddhist Economics, Management, and Policy
Print Length
263 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
18 Mar 2022
ISBN-10
3030972232
ISBN-13
9783030972233

Description

This book defends and articulates an "Engaged Buddhist" approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism. The author posits that Buddhist understandings of the distortions of greed, aversion, and ignorance can be read to apply not only to mental states but also to socio-political ones, and that such a reading suggests rational responses to current social and environmental challenges. The book proposes that we engage both "inner and outer" modes of transformation through which to free ourselves from our current human-made, dysfunctional systems: the former, by examining the workings of our own minds, the latter by criticizing and reforming our economic systems. Since traditional Buddhism provides few sources to build a Buddhist economic vision, this work brings together Buddhist notions of skillful practice, John Dewey's pragmatic principles for social provisioning, and institutional economics. The author provides two case studies for experiments in Buddhist-based socioeconomic policies, Thailand and Bhutan. Of special interest is the implied parallel between worldviews emerging from modern socially-engaged Buddhism and Dewey's notion of a human existential drive to shape the world in collectively beneficial ways.

Product Details

Author:
Joel Magnuson
Book Edition:
2022
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
18 March 2022
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.75 cm
ISBN-10:
3030972232
ISBN-13:
9783030972233
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
263
Weight:
480.81 gm

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