#Buddhists monetised #Buddhism many centuries before Adam Smith dreamed of free trade between nations (or anyone complained about secular mindfulness).

Buddhist economics *in practice* (under the military dictatorships that characterise the govts of Buddhist nations) is nothing like the utopian speculations that we see in modern English-language treatises on the topic.

#buddhisteconomics

My latest for @counterpunch is up today: “Practitioners and theoreticians of anarchism have always been sensitive to these ambiguities, attending to the contradictions contained within ideas of property, competition, and economic freedom.”

#anticapitalism #decentralism #anarchism #degrowth #wellbeing #wellbeingeconomy #buddhisteconomics #smallisbeautiful #anarchistsofmastodon

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/27/the-ambiguity-of-competition/