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Civilisation lies in purifying character, not multiplying wants
Drawn from what E. F. Schumacher said
What E. F. Schumacher actually said
- E. F. Schumacher Economist (1911 to 1977) whose Small Is Beautiful (1973)…
Buddhist economics must be very different from the economics of modern materialism, since the Buddhist sees the essence of civilisation not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character.
Where this was said
↗Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper & Row, 1973)archive.org
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