Buddhist Economics
· Reviews · economics, social justice, Summer 2017, sustainabilityMedia Review
BUDDHIST ECONOMICS:
An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
by Clair Brown Ph.D.
Bloomsbury Press
Review by Lillian Childress
What would a world look like where the rules of economics were governed by Buddhist principles?
Clair Brown has set out to imagine such a world, drawing on her experience as an economics professor at University of California Berkeley and a longtime Tibetan Buddhist practitioner. Her book offers us the promise of laying out a road map to “an enlightened approach to the dismal science”