Overview
- The most comprehensive presentation yet of the Buddhist approach to economics and business
- Cutting edge research in CSR shows the relevance of Buddhism's promotion of cooperation, care and generosity
- Highlights one of the most popular and fast-growing trends in the USA, Western Europe and Japan
Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 33)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Buddhist Ethics Applied to Economics
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Achieving Happiness and Peace
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Buddhism
- Buddhist Economics
- Business Ethics
- CSR
- Caring Relationships
- Consumer Culture
- Corporate social responsibility
- Ecological Sustainability
- Economic Advancement
- Economic Sufficiency
- Economics of Happiness
- Ethical Planning
- Foundations of Buddhist Economics
- Generosity
- Globally
- Happiness
- Happiness Research
- Happiness and Economics
- Human Consumption
- Humanity
- Individuality
- Material Wealth
- Mindfulness
- Moral Development
- Nonviolent
- Organizational renewal
- Peace
- Permanence
- Personal Relationships
- Positive Development
- Reduced Comsumption
- Reduced Production
- SRI
- Self-centeredness
- Self-sacrifice
- Socially Responsible Investment
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Development
- Tackling Greed
- Theory of No-Self
- Transforming Economics and Business
- Western Economics
About this book
Buddhism points out that emphasizing individuality and promoting the greatest fulfillment of the desires of the individual conjointly lead to destruction. The book promotes the basic value-choices of Buddhism, namely happiness, peace and permanence.
Happiness research convincingly shows that not material wealth but the richness of personal relationships determines happiness. Not things, but people make people happy. Western economics tries to provide people with happiness by supplying enormous quantities of things and today’s dominating business models are based on and cultivates narrow self-centeredness.But what people need are caring relationships and generosity. Buddhist economics makes these values accessible by direct provision. Peace can be achieved in nonviolent ways. Wanting less can substantially contribute to this endeavor and make it happen more easily. Permanence, or ecological sustainability, requires a drastic cutback in the present level of consumption and production globally. This reduction should not be an inconvenient exercise of self-sacrifice. In the noble ethos of reducing suffering it can be a positive development path for humanity.
Reviews
“I largely agree with the values expressed by the contributors to this collection. … Taken together the work demonstrates that Buddhist economics is still very much a work in progress.” (Richard K. Payne, Pacific World - Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 4 (1), 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Principles and Economic Transformation - A Buddhist Approach
Editors: Laszlo Zsolnai
Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9310-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9309-7Published: 19 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3615-3Published: 15 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9310-3Published: 17 May 2011
Series ISSN: 0925-6733
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 216
Topics: Ethics, Development Economics, Religious Studies, general, Non-Western Philosophy