Re Forstater on Buddhist economics, Sun Yat-sen in his San Min Chu I makes  
right livelihood one of the three pillars of his proposed new society. He  
goes on to say that Henry George's ideas on land-value taxation are at the  
heart of right livelihood.  
  
        What follows is highly speculative, but fun to consider.   
        -- George derived his ideas from Christianity, including its Judaic  
or Mosaic foundations, and thought he was applying the ideals of Jesus;  
        -- Some modern research purports to show that Jesus was really a  
Buddhist;  
        -- If so, this Buddhistic idea traveled through ancient Israel and  
Rome and France (via Turgot) and England to Philadelphia, thence back to a  
Buddhist in Hawaii, Dr. Sun, who moved back to China to try to reapply it.  
It's a bit like incestuous reflection, when people begin to believe their  
own propaganda - except in this case the propaganda is (to me) much more  
creditable than the kind that Dick Cheney has been selling himself. It  
certainly is better seasoned.  
  
Mason Gaffney