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relation to the tertiary sector (represented mainly by trade and commerce) as the economy progresses?. Does this indicate that the traditional affiliation of the Jains with trade and commerce will, in due course, if it continues to hold true, provide a healthy check to excessive economic progress ? One does not wish to end on either an apocalyptic or an eschatological note but perhaps it is in order to end on an optimistic one—that the various ecotheological models supplied by various religions will rub off the rough edges of one others.
I C. P. Kindleberger, Economic Development (New York: McGraw Hill Book Co.
1965) Chapter 10. . See Robley Edward Whitson, The Coming Convergence of World Religions (New
York : Newman Press, 1971) passim.
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