A Buddhist Economic System—in Principle

Frederic L. Pryor

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1990, vol. 49, issue 3, 339-349

Abstract: Abstract. Some of the major canonical scriptures of Buddhism are examined, as well as some of the secondary literature about these writings, in order to see what type of economic system might be inferred from the religious tenets which Gautama Buddha expounded. The personal and social ethics underlying such a system, the economic institutions which are consistent with such moral rules and the attitudes toward property and wealth which they inspire re analyzed for the light they shed on the explanation of economic behavior.

Date: 1990
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