The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics

Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
	Reference
2 Socially Engaged Buddhism and Economics
	Peace Activism
	Economics and the Buddha
	Engaged Buddhism and Economics
	References
3 Greed, Hatred, and Delusion
	Destructive Mental States
	The Institutionalization of Greed
	The Commercial Revolution, Religion, and the Sanctification of Greed
	The Corporation and the Institutionalization of Greed
	Dharma Talk
	References
4 Paradigm Shifts
	Whitehead’s Speculative Philosophy
	The Mechanico-Corpuscular Paradigm and Social Atomism
	Social Atomism and Neoclassical Economics
	A Second Paradigm Shift
	The Second Shift and Buddhism
	Dharma Talk
	References
5 Institutional Economics, Pragmatism, and Buddhism
	Peirce and James
	Holism and the Individual in Pragmatism and Institutional Economics
	Buddhism and Moral Necessity
	Dharma Talk
	References
6 Eye of the Heart
	The Eye of the Heart
	Meta-Economists
	John Ruskin
	William Morris
	Patrick Geddes
	Lewis Mumford
	Schumacher’s Technology with a Human Face
	Schumacherian Ontology
	Schumacherian Epistemology
	Dharma Talk
	References
7 Ecodharma and Economics
	Pathological System Condition: Global Warming
	IPCC Reports—2018, 2021
	Unheeded Warnings
	“New Economics”
	The Social Self and Consumerism
	Ecodharma and Economics
	Dharma Talk
	References
8 Mindfulness and the Outer Work of Social Change
	Cultural Hegemony and the Pathology of Normalcy
	Mindfulness
	Silent Illumination
	Capitalism and the Assimilation of Mindfulness
	McMindfulness
	Dharma Talk
	References
9 Right Livelihood Institutions
	Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics and Right Livelihood
	Localism
	A System of Lived Ethics
		Right View
		Right Thinking
		Right Speech
		Right Action
		Right Livelihood
		Right Diligence
		Right Mindfulness
		Right Concentration
	Dharma Talk
	References
Appendix
Thailand and Bhutan
Thailand’s Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Thailand’s Economic Crisis of the Late 1990s
Sufficiency Economy Philosophy
Bhutan and Gross National Happiness
Dharma Talk
References
Index