How Long to Read The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 32 minutes to read The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics by Joel Magnuson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book defends and articulates an “Engaged Buddhist” approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism. The author posits that Buddhist understandings of the distortions of greed, aversion, and ignorance can be read to apply not only to mental states but also to socio-political ones, and that such a reading suggests rational responses to current social and environmental challenges. The book proposes that we engage both “inner and outer” modes of transformation through which to free ourselves from our current human-made, dysfunctional systems: the former, by examining the workings of our own minds, the latter by criticizing and reforming our economic systems. Since traditional Buddhism provides few sources to build a Buddhist economic vision, this work brings together Buddhist notions of skillful practice, John Dewey’s pragmatic principles for social provisioning, and institutional economics. The author provides two case studies for experiments in Buddhist-based socioeconomic policies, Thailand and Bhutan. Of special interest is the implied parallel between worldviews emerging from modern socially-engaged Buddhism and Dewey’s notion of a human existential drive to shape the world in collectively beneficial ways.

How long is The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics?

The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics by Joel Magnuson is 266 pages long, and a total of 68,096 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 12 minutes to read The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics aloud.

What Reading Level is The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics?

The Dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhist Economics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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