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