The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics: The Platform of Community, Humanity, and Spirituality

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This book confronts the failings of current global economics to deliver the equity, sustainability and community empowerment which humanity now needs to handle a troubled future. The volume proposes an economy built from our society, not the other way around. The Kyoto Manifesto was built, layer by layer, over a period of 4 years, based on broad-ranging international symposia held in Kyoto between 2014 and 2017, hosted by the Center for the Creative Economy, Doshisha University. Not stopping at theory and untested ideas however, the Manifesto proposes practical action that will make a difference, including in the problematic technological and ecological context of humanity’s immediate and long-term future. The book is unique and innovative for it moves adventurously across very broad territory. The Manifesto draws from world philosophic arguments, including, specifically, a critique of “liberalism”, further, exploring sociology, cultural anthropology, politics, primatology and early humanity, even quantum physics. Argument is set within mainstream post-1972 economics and political economics as well as direct practical experience working to empower disadvantaged communities through the United Nations. Most importantly, the book’s analysis is deeply informed by the practice of searching for what is “sacred”, the ultimate essence of our humanity, what we can be as a human race—empowered, fulfilled individuals, deeply sharing and caring for each other across our separate cultures and lives. Stomu Yamash’ta’s On Zen performances, set the context for the Symposia, bringing different religions and cultures together across their dividing boundaries into a coherent search for peace and harmony through sacred music. Informed by alternate cultural paradigms for economics, the book probes deeply into philosophies and practices that already exist within Eastern and Western societies, and offer lessons for our future. The result is an economics that stresses harmony with nature, and balance in social relations. It places an emphasis on community—human sharing and trust—as a platform for our future, not separate from the global economy but integrated into its very foundations. This is a book for all who care: a plan for our sustainable future built from the best of what our humanity is and can offer. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Path: From the Sacred Harmony of Humanity to a New Economics (Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi, Stephen Hill)....Pages 3-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 The Survivability of Humanity Within the Current Global Economic Paradigm (Stephen Hill)....Pages 13-34 Human and Nature Revisited: The Industrial Revolution, Modern Economics and the Anthropocene (Ryuichi Fukuhara)....Pages 35-62 Dimensions of Change Within the Economics Mainstream (Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 63-88 Ethics of Economics in Late Stage Capitalism: Postmodern Chords (C. Edward Arrington, Grace Gonzalez Basurto)....Pages 89-104 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 The Three Foundations of Kyoto’s Traditional Culture (Manami Oka)....Pages 107-128 Supplement for Chapter 6: The Wisdom of Traditional Kyoto Culture (Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 129-130 Listen to the Stone—Searching for Spiritual Harmony in Polyphonic Coexistence (Stomu Yamash’ta)....Pages 131-139 Zero and Emptiness (Vacuum/Void) in Physics and Chemistry (Kazuyoshi Yoshimura)....Pages 141-155 Supplement for Chapter 9: Impression and Comment on “Zero and Emptiness (Vacuum Void) in Physics and Chemistry” by Kazuyoshi Yoshimura (Stomu Yamash’ta)....Pages 157-161 Next Civilization and Spirituality (Tadao Takemoto)....Pages 163-177 Spirituality as the Source of Human Creativity: Insights from India (Akio Tanabe)....Pages 179-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 The Essence of Creativity (Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 197-222 Trust, Not Competition, as a Source of the Creative Economy (Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 223-236 Creative Organizations (Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 237-254 Front Matter ....Pages 255-255 A Self-similar Dynamic Systems Perspective of “Living” Nature: The Self-nonself Circulation Principle Beyond Complexity (Masatoshi Murase)....Pages 257-283 ‘Sacred Silence’—The Stillness of Listening to Humanity (Stephen Hill)....Pages 285-307 ‘Community’: Platform for Sustainable Change (Stephen Hill)....Pages 309-327 Evolution of Community and Humanity from Primatological Viewpoints (Juichi Yamagiwa)....Pages 329-357 Eminent Otherness: Toward an Economy of Hospitality (C. Edward Arrington)....Pages 359-374 Building the Harmony of Humanity (Stephen Hill)....Pages 375-393 The Future of Capitalism and the Islamic Economy (Shinsuke Nagaoka)....Pages 395-415 Buddhist Economics: A Cultural Alternative (Juewei Shi)....Pages 417-436 Informal Economy and Diversity: The Role of Micro-producers (Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 437-448 “The Future’s Not What It Used to Be”—Ogden Nash (Stephen Hill)....Pages 449-476 Front Matter ....Pages 477-477 “The Sacred Symphony” (Overture) (Stephen Hill, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 479-483 Recognizing the Need for Change (First Movement) (Stephen Hill, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 485-491 “Foundation Stones of Spirituality” (Second Movement) (Stephen Hill, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 493-499 “The Dynamic of Creativity” (Third Movement) (Stephen Hill, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 501-507 “Building the Kyoto Platform for Change” (Fourth Movement) (Stephen Hill, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 509-519 The Way Forward (Stephen Hill, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 521-524 Front Matter ....Pages 525-525 “The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics”. “The Platform of Community, Humanity and Spirituality” (Stephen Hill, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi)....Pages 527-533 Back Matter ....Pages 535-550