Schumacher, in his famous essay on "Buddhist Economics" argued that one of the precepts of Buddhism is "right livelihood" and therefore there must be such a thing as a Buddhist Economics. As with many topics, we must distinguish between "X economics" (or "Xist economics") and "the economics of X". An example of the "Economics of Buddhism" was in a paper I once saw that argued that individuals will allocate a certain amount of time to meditation based on good old marginalist (cost-benefit) principles. One would think that, according to the Becker-type approach, there is an "economics of..." everything, at least everything that takes time, and therefore regards allocating scarce resources among competing uses. This harks back to the discussion we had on whether there is a "Black Economics". There is Islamic economics, Buddhist economics, Christian economics, Jewish economics, etc., the Association for Social Economics has long had religion and economics as a main theme, there are conferences and books on religion and economics, including all the different ones cited above. Whether one agrees with it or not, or thinks it makes sense, or anything else, is a different matter, but one cannot say it does not exist. Not all religions require blind faith, by the way, but probably not an appropriate topic for this list. Mathew Forstater