Remedying Globalization and Consumerism: Joining the Inner and Outer Journeys in "Perfect Balance"

The strategies of globalization have to do with centralizing all power in financial interest, reducing all value to money, and subsuming governments to the interests of the corporations. Simmer-Brown describes what she understands as a first-generation American Buddhist to be the inner and outer jou...

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Published inBuddhist-Christian studies Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 31 - 46
Main Author Simmer-Brown, Judith
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Honolulu University of Hawaii Press 01.01.2002
University of Hawai'i Press
Subjects
Buddhism
Buddhist and Christian Views of Economics
Capitalism
Consumer advocacy
Consumer economics
Consumerism
Corporate power
Corporations
Economic aspects
Economic globalization
Economic theory
Ethical aspects
Globalization
Mahayana
Social aspects
Social impact
World economy
United States
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Summary:The strategies of globalization have to do with centralizing all power in financial interest, reducing all value to money, and subsuming governments to the interests of the corporations. Simmer-Brown describes what she understands as a first-generation American Buddhist to be the inner and outer journeys of investigating globalization, facing its implications, and being present to its patterns, its network of suffering, its causes and its remedies.
ISSN:0882-0945
1527-9472
1527-9472
DOI:10.1353/bcs.2002.0007