{"id":4484,"date":"2018-09-21T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2018-09-21T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T22:14:12","slug":"basic-goods-provision-in-buddhist-economic-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2018\/09\/21\/basic-goods-provision-in-buddhist-economic-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Goods Provision in Buddhist Economic Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 25, 2018<\/h6>\n<h3>The Wisdom of Need: Basic Goods Provision in Buddhist Economic Ethics<\/h3>\n<p>Kenneth A. Reinert<br \/>\nSchar School of Policy and Government<br \/>\nGeorge Mason University<\/p>\n<p>Human beings have basic needs, and these needs must be addressed through the provision of basic goods and services. This article reviews the role of basic goods in Buddhist economic ethics, both traditional and contemporary. It suggests that basic goods provision deserves particular attention in economic considerations and that such attention is fully consistent with both Buddhist economic ethics and the idea of moral minimalism in political philosophy. The article proposes and discusses basic goods in the form of \u201ceight requisites,\u201d a modification of the traditional Buddhist \u201cfour requisites\u201d of food, clothing, shelter, and medicine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2018\/09\/Reinert-Wisdom-of-Need-final.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 25, 2018 The Wisdom of Need: Basic Goods Provision in Buddhist Economic Ethics Kenneth A. Reinert Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason University Human beings have basic needs, and these needs must be addressed through the provision of basic goods and services. This article reviews the role of basic goods &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2018\/09\/21\/basic-goods-provision-in-buddhist-economic-ethics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basic Goods Provision in Buddhist Economic Ethics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[125215],"tags":[2693,2679],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-25-2018","tag-compassion","tag-economics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1ak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}