(b) Consumption The question of consumption is similar to that of value. We must distinguish what kind of desire our consumption is intended to satisfy. Is it in order to answer the need for things of…
(1) Specialization At the present time economists consider economic activity in isolation, without reference to other forms of human activity or to other academic disciplines. This specialization is o…
Summary In summary, one important point that must be stressed is that the economic results that we seek are not ends in themselves. They are means, and the end to which they must lead is the developme…
Limitations of Economic Theory in the Industrial Age (1) Specialization (2) Not free of ethics, but inattentive to them (3) Unable to be a science, but wanting to be one (4) Lack of clarity in its und…
Technology I would like to digress a little at this point and say something about technology. The question may be asked as to what our understanding of technology is. In Buddhism, or particularly in B…
(1) Middle-way economics: realization of true well-being An important characteristic of Buddhist economics is that it is a ‘middle-way’. It might be called a middle-way economics. The Buddhist way of …
Buddhist Economics In a discussion of Buddhist economics the first question that arises is whether such a thing as Buddhist economics actually exists, or whether it is even a possibility. At present t…
(d) Competition & Cooperation The view of economics is that it is human nature to compete. Buddhism, on the other hand, says that it is within human nature both to compete and to cooperate, and fu…
(a) Want I would like to begin dealing with the subject of human nature by looking at demand or wants. Modern economics and Buddhism both agree that mankind has unlimited wants. There are a great numb…
คำนำ ผมได้ทราบมาว่า เมื่อข่าวการนิมนต์พระมาแสดงปาฐกถาสำคัญในวันวิทยาศาสตร์แห่งชาติปี พ.ศ. ๒๕๓๔ เริ่มแพร่ออกไปนั้น ได้เกิดปฏิกิริยาในทางลบทันที มีเสียงค้านว่า พระจะรู้เรื่องอะไรเกี่ยวกับวิทยาศาสตร์ เร…
