Robin Neill just noted that 
 
"Pursuit of Buddhist enlightenment is the art of getting the most out 
of life, and that has nothing to do with the discipline of Economics." 
 
Economists with a Schumacherian bent (or appreciative of Ruskin) 
would surely disagree with this statement. 
 
Brian 
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| Sioux Falls, SD 57197         |  Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra       
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