A bonus episode with extra material from last episode’s wonderful conversation with Vaddhaka, author of ‘The Buddha On Wall Street’.

Listen to part 1 of this conversation

In part 2 of our discussion about the contribution Buddhism may have to make to all matters economic, we turn to the post-pandemic realities now faced around the world. The times prompt a reconsideration of the “attention economy” and its relationship to social inequality when everyone’s lives are much more centred on the web. And we explore the relationship between the “wellbeing economy” and ideas of economic growth; as well as whether the community-led origins of the UK ‘Welfare State’ might serve as a model for the future.

Some fundamental questions are asked and well met: What do we value as  a society? What does human nature tend towards? What does the “common weal” look like after COVID-19? Finding throughout the conversation the opportunities for kindness in our dealings with each other – beyond economic and political positions.

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The Buddha On Wall Street by Vaddhaka Linn

Listen to a mini-series of podcasts on The Buddha On Wall Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realists">Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman 

Humankind by Rutger Bregman

Cover art, ‘Hold’ by Nagasiddhi

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We're back with the first episode in a two-part conversation about what Buddhism has to say to 21st C. economics in the wake of populist political tides, globalization and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Listen to part 2 of this conversation

Vaddhaka is the author of The Buddha On Wall Street, a Buddhist critique of Neo-Liberal notions of capitalism. Expect a stirring, provocative discussion around the state of western democracies in relation to economics, and the hope offered by community-led responses to the despair felt by many around the world who feel left behind.

How can Buddhism respond to inequality, the need for social justice, poverty and class differences? What does the history of "free-thinking British Socialism" have to tell us today? And how might we move towards an economics of wellbeing?

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The Buddha On Wall Street by Vaddhaka Linn

Listen to a mini-series of podcasts on The Buddha On Wall Street

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher.

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton

The economic philosophy of John Maynard Keynes

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Our longer form podcast, featuring great in-depth conversations with Buddhists from around the world. Inspiring stories that illuminate for modern times the Buddha's example of how to live and find true freedom.

Quite a number of Windhorse Publications' books have been featuring recently in a variety of different magazines and blogs!

Firstly, you can find a chapter of Wild Awake: Alone, Offline and Aware in Nature by Vajragupta in the Fall 2018 edition of Parabola magazine, 'The Journey Home'.  

"Each time I dive deeper into the wilderness I can feel that green fire burning through me. Within me and without, I can sense the intense aliveness of life. But then I have to go back to my other life. How to stay alive in the hustle and hassle of the city?" - Vajragupta in WiId Awake 

Shantigarbha, author of new release I’ll Meet You There: A Practical Guide to Empathy, Mindfulness and Communication, has been visiting Centres in the US, running book launches and empathy workshops in New Hampshire and San Francisco, and touring the UK.  I'll Meet You There has been highlighted in the Spiritual Media Blog. 

The Fall issue of Vajra Bell (an online publication featuring articles on the teachings and practices of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community) contains both an article on Vajragupta's Wild Awake as well as a review of Vaddhaka's The Buddha on Wall Street which explores what a Buddhist response to a Capitalist society looks like.

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Please note that the transcript for this podcast can be downloaded at the following link

At the beginning of the podcast itself I give an incorrect web address.