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Title: Buddhist Economics

Subtitle: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science

Author: Clair Brown

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-17

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism & Eastern Religions

Publisher's Summary:

Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, but doesn't attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning.

Clair Brown, an economics professor at U.C. Berkeley and a practicing Buddhist, has developed a holistic model, one based on the notion that quality of life should be measured by more than national income. Brown advocates an approach to organizing the economy that embraces rather than skirts questions of values, sustainability, and equity. Complementing the award-winning work of Jeffrey Sachs and Bill McKibben, and the paradigm-breaking spirit of Amartya Sen, Robert Reich, and Thomas Piketty, Brown incorporates the Buddhist emphasis on interdependence, shared prosperity, and happiness into her vision for a sustainable and compassionate world.

Buddhist Economics leads us to think mindfully as we go about our daily activities, and offers a way to appreciate how our actions affect the well-being of those around us. By replacing the endless cycle of desire with more positive collective activities, we can make our lives more meaningful as well as happier. Inspired by the popular course Professor Brown teaches at U.C. Berkeley, Buddhist Economics represents an enlightened approach to our modern world infused with ancient wisdom, with benefits both personal and global, for generations to come.

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Members Reviews:

Excellent overview of the intersection between economics, happiness, and the environment

This book provides an easy-to-read and well-supported analysis of the critical relationship between the world economy, the earth/environment, and peopleâs happiness. Brown sets forth the sobering realities of modern-day climate change and economic inequality, then turns to the steps we can take â both individually and as a society â to help overcome these potentially devastating problems. In this excellent introduction to these issues, Brown provides precisely the hopeful yet pragmatic voice we need for the challenging days ahead.

must read

an an essential play list if we are to have a habitable home

Five Stars

Interesting concepts.

Some good suggestions, but is there really a "Buddhist Economics?"

I had hoped to like this book more. After all, the blurbs on its back cover from Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, and environmentalist Bill McKibben, all sing its praises. My own view is more mixed, however.

First, let me outline what I liked about the book. The author, University of California-Berkeley economist Clair Brown, correctly diagnoses our societyâs greatest errors and failings: its fostering of obscene levels of economic inequality, its despoliation of the planet, its single-minded focus on generating wealth rather than on expanding human well-being and flourishing, and its economic model of corporate obligations to shareholders but not stakeholders. Dr. Brown offers many sensible alternatives and solutions to these problems, providing reasonable guidelines for reducing wealth inequality, putting the global economy on a sustainable footing, preserving the planet, and maximizing human happiness and potential.