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In this powerful critique of the current wave of globalization, Rich urgently calls for a new global ethic, distilling the messages of Ashoka and Kautilya while reflecting on think...
This section has material on four chapters I authored in four different books, plus a preface and essay I authored for a book on Ashoka published in Bengali in Bangladesh in 2016.
Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the P...
Over the last two decades the world’s institutions have largely failed to deal with the ecological crises of climate change, destruction of species, and pollution of fresh water an...
In the words of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the 2011 Davos World Economic Forum, the global economy has become a “global suicide pact.” How can we imagine alternatives? Are...
The Catholic theologian Hans Küng observed that “a global market economy requires a global ethic.” Yet at the very moment when the need for just such an ethic is more urgent than e...
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...
This is an excerpt from the Preface to the new 2017 Penguin edition of To Uphold the World, published with a new title, Ashoka in Our Time: The Question of Dharma for a Globalized...
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...
I went on a book tour in Hawaii where To Uphold the World had a surprising resonance--Hawaii has the highest percentage Buddhist population of any American state. This interview is...
"To Uphold the World is a persuasive call for our own generation to challenge the central assumptions behind economic globalization and replace them with policies grounded in an et...
A new paperback edition of To Uphold the World has been published by Penguin/Random House/Viking in India., with a new updated preface and a new title. It is available in the U..S...
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...
Jury Findings World Bank TribunaI: The four day Independent Peoples Tribunal (IPT) on the World Bank in India concluded after hearing numerous depositions indicting th...
