0:00.0	Everyone can be happy. The world's not a zero-sum game.
0:04.4	When you are better off and do better, it helps me. Same with me.
0:12.1	This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. To support the work we do,
0:16.1	get commercial free versions of every episode and occasional members only bonus content to visit
0:20.5	the Contributes tab at bestofalleft.com. Now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast
0:25.7	with clips today from This Is Hell, the Tom Hartman program, and two TED talks.
0:41.1	What if there was a different, more compassionate, less selfish way to approach economics
0:46.5	that could lead to less inequality and suffering and might actually make it so we don't completely
0:53.4	destroy the planet. I mean that would be great, right? Well, our next guest thinks she's found it
0:58.6	in Buddhist economics. Here to explain what a Buddhist kind of economics could be,
1:03.6	economist Claire Brown is author of Buddhist economics and enlightened approach to the digital
1:09.4	science. Welcome to This Is Hell, Claire. It's wonderful to join you, Chuck. Thank you. Claire is an
1:14.9	economics professor at UC Berkeley and a practicing Buddhist at UC Berkeley. She now teaches a seminar
1:21.1	on Buddhist economics. Over the past couple of weeks, every person I've told that we were going to
1:26.6	have on an economist to discuss Buddhist economics. They all asked if it was a contradiction and
1:31.7	oxymoron suggesting that economics and Buddhism simply don't go together that the exchange of
1:37.1	currency for goods and services or any kind of economic relationship is simply not Buddhist. What
1:42.9	does that either say about our Western view of Buddhism or to what degree are Buddhism and economics
1:49.4	inherently incompatible? That's a good question. Because it is oxymoronic in a way in that
1:55.7	economic is all conceptual. Buddhism is experiential and yet the Buddhist teachers quickly will tell us
2:02.6	that that's okay. We need to think about ideas and concepts and there's a strong tradition in
2:08.8	Buddhism of inquiry like the Dalai Lama says don't accept anything without inquiring into it.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jay Tomlinson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jay Tomlinson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.