In 1991; Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2;200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance; conservation; nonviolence; species protection; and human rights; Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who converted to Buddhism on the heels of a bloody war; yet his empire rested on a political system that prioritized material wealth and amoral realpolitik. This system had been perfected by Kautilya; a statesman who wrote the world's first treatise on economics. 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 thinkers from across the ages—from Aristotle and Adam Smith to George Soros.Bruce Rich discusses Universal Health Care in Ancient India:
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