“Buddhist Economics” “He tends to count nothing as an expenditure, other than human effort...”, this quote was used to describe the way a French political philosopher characterized “Western man”. Bertrand de Jouvenel goes on to say, “He does not seem to realize at all that human life is a dependent part of an ecosystem of many different forms of life.” I strongly agree with both of these assumptions in most cases. I thought this essay was well written and gave many strong points. I believe modern economists take many things for granted, even more so modern Americans. Unlike the Buddhists most Americans have little or no regard for trees and natural resources. As these resources