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Articles

• BP and a Global Ethic

  BP and a Global Ethic

  Bruce Rich shows how in our day of globalization and multicultural tensions we have much to learn from Ashoka’s policy of nonviolence and compassion. Here, he argues that the BP oi...

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• Interview: What Can Ancient India Tell Us About Our World

  Interview: What Can Ancient India Tell Us About Our World

  Question: What’s the most important take-home message for readers?"I examine the lives and writings of Ashoka and Kautilya as archetypes, metaphors and sources of inspiration for a...

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Videos

• Universal Healthcare in Ancient India

  Universal Healthcare in Ancient India

  Universal Healthcare in Ancient India: In To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India, author Bruce Rich contemplates the rule of the Indian emper...

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• With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India,Moderator: Homi Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center.

  With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India,Moderator: Homi Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center.

  With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India. What can ancient Indian thinkers Ashoka and Kautilya tell us about how to think about the dilemmas of globalization in...

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• Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya for sustainable development

  Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya for sustainable development

  Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya: In conversation with Bruce Rich, Attorney, Environmental Law Institute, USA at the Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics Forum 2017, Guhawati,...

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• Adam Smith
• Adam Smith
• Afghanistan
• Afghanistan
• Amartya Sen
• Amartya Sen
• amorality (Kautilya's)
• amorality (Kautilya's)
• ancient history
• ancient history
• ancient India
• ancient India
• animal hospitals
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• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Ashoka
• Ashoka
• Ashokan Edicts
• Ashokan Edicts
• Ashokan ethic
• Ashokan ethic
• assassination
• assassination
• atheism
• atheism
• Balipara Foundation
• Balipara Foundation
• beneficence
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• Bhabha Homi
• Bhabha Homi
• bottom-up
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• BP
• BP
• BP oil spill
• BP oil spill
• bribery
• bribery
• British Petroleum
• British Petroleum
• Buddhism
• Buddhism
• Bush George W.
• Bush George W.
• business prompt dispatch of (Ashoka)
• business prompt dispatch of (Ashoka)
• carbon taxes
• carbon taxes
• caste
• caste
• Chandragupta Maurya
• Chandragupta Maurya
• coalition politics (India)
• coalition politics (India)
• conciliation
• conciliation
• conquest (of self)
• conquest (of self)
• consequentialism
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• conservation
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• corruption
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• Dalai Lama
• Dalai Lama
• danda (rule of force; army)
• danda (rule of force; army)
• deontological
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• deontology
• deontology
• deregulation
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• Dhamma
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• dharma
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• Dhauli
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• duties (of the state)
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• duty
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• Eastern Himalayan Natureconomics Forum
• Eastern Himalayan Natureconomics Forum
• economic efficiency
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• economics
• economics
• economists
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• elephant forests
• elephant forests
• embeddedness
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• Endangered Species Act
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• endangered species edict (Ashoka)
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• environmental sustainabililty
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• equal protection of laws
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• espionage
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• ethics
• ethics
• Ethics (Aristotle)
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• famine prevention (Kautilya)
• famine prevention (Kautilya)
• Faxian (Fa-Hsien)
• Faxian (Fa-Hsien)
• foreign affairs
• foreign affairs
• forest protection
• forest protection
• free market
• free market
• George Soros
• George Soros
• global ethic
• global ethic
• global financial crisis (see also: global ecoomic crisis)
• global financial crisis (see also: global ecoomic crisis)
• globalization
• globalization
• global market economy
• global market economy
• global problems
• global problems
• global warming
• global warming
• good governance
• good governance
• governance
• governance
• grassroots
• grassroots
• Gray John (philosopher)
• Gray John (philosopher)
• Harvard Humanities Center
• Harvard Humanities Center
• Harvard South Asia Initiative
• Harvard South Asia Initiative
• healtcare
• healtcare
• healthcare (universal)
• healthcare (universal)
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Henry Kissinger
• Henry Kissinger
• Herodotus
• Herodotus
• human rights
• human rights
• incentives
• incentives
• inclusion
• inclusion
• inclusive green growth
• inclusive green growth
• indentured servitude
• indentured servitude
• India
• India
• Indika (of Megasthenes)
• Indika (of Megasthenes)
• individual (role of)
• individual (role of)
• inner conquest
• inner conquest
• institutions
• institutions
• internaliization (of costs)
• internaliization (of costs)
• international relations
• international relations
• internet
• internet
• invasion of Iraq
• invasion of Iraq
• Iraq
• Iraq
• jurisprudence
• jurisprudence
• justice
• justice
• Kalinga
• Kalinga
• kama
• kama
• Kapuscinski Ryszard
• Kapuscinski Ryszard
• Karl Polanyi
• Karl Polanyi
• Kautilya
• Kautilya
• Küng Hans
• Küng Hans
• law
• law
• legislation (vs. persuasion)
• legislation (vs. persuasion)
• local solutions
• local solutions
• Machiavelli
• Machiavelli
• mandarin
• mandarin
• mantri (Sankskrit)
• mantri (Sankskrit)
• market fundamentalism
• market fundamentalism
• market liberalization
• market liberalization
• materialism
• materialism
• material wealth
• material wealth
• Maurya dynasty
• Maurya dynasty
• Max Weber
• Max Weber
• medical services
• medical services
• medicinal herbs
• medicinal herbs
• Megasthenes
• Megasthenes
• nature reserves
• nature reserves
• negotiation
• negotiation
• nonviolence
• nonviolence
• Obama health care legislation
• Obama health care legislation
• one rupee coin
• one rupee coin
• Orissa/Odisha
• Orissa/Odisha
• Pakistan
• Pakistan
• Peter Singer
• Peter Singer
• pilgrims (Chinese)
• pilgrims (Chinese)
• Pillar Edicts (Ashoka)
• Pillar Edicts (Ashoka)
• Polanyi Karl
• Polanyi Karl
• political economy
• political economy
• political science
• political science
• political violence (India)
• political violence (India)
• politics
• politics
• Politics (Aristotle)
• Politics (Aristotle)
• prakrit
• prakrit
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• protected species
• protected species
• protest
• protest
• prudence
• prudence
• public debate
• public debate
• public participation
• public participation
• public policy
• public policy
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Rabindranath Tagore
• realism
• realism
• realpolitik
• realpolitik
• reflection (inner)
• reflection (inner)
• religion
• religion
• religious tolerance
• religious tolerance
• reverence for life
• reverence for life
• Rock Edicts (Ashoka)
• Rock Edicts (Ashoka)
• Roosevelt (Theodore)
• Roosevelt (Theodore)
• Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Sanskrit
• Sanskrit
• Sarnath
• Sarnath
• Sarnath Ashokan Pillar
• Sarnath Ashokan Pillar
• secular ethic
• secular ethic
• Seleucids
• Seleucids
• self-control
• self-control
• shastra
• shastra
• Singh Manmohan
• Singh Manmohan
• skepticism
• skepticism
• slavery
• slavery
• Smith Adam
• Smith Adam
• social change
• social change
• social sustainability
• social sustainability
• South Asia
• South Asia
• species protection
• species protection
• Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka
• state (role of)
• state (role of)
• state (withdrawal of)
• state (withdrawal of)
• statecraft
• statecraft
• state seal of India
• state seal of India
• sticks and carrots
• sticks and carrots
• subversion
• subversion
• sustainable development
• sustainable development
• T.S. Eliot
• T.S. Eliot
• Tata Group
• Tata Group
• technocracy
• technocracy
• Thatcher Margaret
• Thatcher Margaret
• The Great Transformation (Polanyi)
• The Great Transformation (Polanyi)
• The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen)
• The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• tolerance
• tolerance
• top-down
• top-down
• To Uphold the World
• To Uphold the World
• Travels with Herodotus
• Travels with Herodotus
• tribal peoples
• tribal peoples
• uniformity judicial procedure
• uniformity judicial procedure
• universal ethic
• universal ethic
• universal health care
• universal health care
• utilitarianism
• utilitarianism
• Vaclav Havel
• Vaclav Havel
• values
• values
• venal view (of human nature)
• venal view (of human nature)
• venal view (of modern economics)
• venal view (of modern economics)
• violence
• violence
• Web
• Web
• Weber Max
• Weber Max
• welfare
• welfare
• women's rights (Kautilya)
• women's rights (Kautilya)
• Xuangzang (Hiuan-Tsang)
• Xuangzang (Hiuan-Tsang)

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