To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India by Rich, Bruce

To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807006139)

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To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India by Rich, Bruce

To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India

$23.00
To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India by Rich, Bruce

To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India

$23.00
Format: Paperback
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What two great figures of ancient India--Ashoka and Kautilya--can tell us about our contemporary economic and social crises

In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who converted to Buddhism on the heels of a bloody war, yet his empire rested on a political system that prioritized material wealth and amoral realpolitik. This system had been perfected by Kautilya, a statesman who wrote the world's first treatise on economics. In this powerful critique of the current wave of globalization, Rich urgently calls for a new global ethic, distilling the messages of Ashoka and Kautilya while reflecting on thinkers from across the ages--from Aristotle and Adam Smith to George Soros.

Author: Bruce Rich
ISBN-10: 0807006130
ISBN-13: 9780807006139
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.58w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 53
By Bruce Rich
By Bruce Rich
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Bruce Rich is Washington DC based attorney who has served as senior counsel on international finance and development issues for major environmental organizations such as the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Rich has published extensively in environmental and policy journals, as well as in newspapers and magazines such as The Financial Times, The Nation and The Ecologist. He is the author of Mortgaging the Earth, a widely acclaimed critique of the World Bank and reflection on the philosophical and historical evolution of the project of economic development in the West. He has been awarded the United Nations Environment Program 'Global 500 Award, ' the highest environmental prize of the United Nations, in 1988, and also won the World Hunger Media Award in that year for the best periodical piece on development issues.

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