Is it not true that in ethnically Han Chinese parts of Asia that Daoism is associated with a pro-laissez faire attitude towards economics whereas Confucianism is associated with a pro-state-intervention-in-the-economy attitude?
Also, it would seem that Buddhism has almost no economic content at all. Certainly E.F. Schumacher argued in his _Small is Beautiful_ that "Buddhist Economics" implies being satisfied with not too much, and thus presumably supports pro-ecology sustainable development. But in Thailand it is pro-laissez faire with little environmental concern and in Tibet is/was pro-feudal. More a matter of meditating on Emptiness, I guess... Barkley Rosser
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu