“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