Page "Small Is Beautiful" Paragraph 11

* It is clear, therefore, that Buddhist economics must be very different from the economics of modern materialism, since the Buddhist sees the essence of civilisation not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character.

Character, at the same time, is formed primarily by a man's work.

And work, properly conducted in conditions of human dignity and freedom, blesses those who do it and equally their products.