A post-Cartesian economic and Buddhist view on tourism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11236612
AutoresMatthias Fuchs (0000-0003-3964-2716, Mid Sweden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen103
Páginas103688
Fecha de publicación2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnals of Tourism Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0160-7383 • E-ISSN: 1873-7722
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.annals.2023.103688
OpenAlexW4388915203
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas68

Insuperable socio-economic and ecological crises demonstrate the need to challenge economic growth ideology that is often embedded in contemporary tourism science. By borrowing from Buddhist philosophy this essay describes inconsistencies in economic theorizing due to its adoption of the Cartesian ontology implying a mechanistic thinking form. Following philosopher Brodbeck (2014), economic science is neither an empirically exact science nor value-free but represents an implicit ethics. To build on this, the elements of a post-mechanistic economic theory are sketched (Brodbeck, 2001). The applicability of this concept is corroborated by instances of current tourism research. After reinterpreting the homo economicus and the nature of money an agenda for a transformative tourism science building upon post-Cartesian economic thinking and Buddhist philosophy is elaborated

Buddhism · Buddhist philosophy · Cartesian coordinate system · Economic science · Economics · Epistemology · Homo economicus · Ideology · Neoclassical economics · Ontology · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Transformative learning · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces