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ARHAT VACANA Kundakunda Janapitha, Indorer
Vol. - 24, Issue 1, January - March, 2012, 61-66 Economic Organization
under Jainism Ganesh Kawadia* & Anupam Jain**
Abstract
The principle of economics was developed for betterment of mankind but in the process we lost the dream of kind man. There is thus a need to develop a new form of economic organization or economic order which can help us in achieving the target of nature friendly sustainable development, free from any type of exploitation, the real Humanomics. The religious path or the path of non violence can help us in designing the economic organization which can ensure the development and the ultimate happiness for all. This paper is an attempt to identify the jain principles which can help us in building the new world economic order based on overall development of human beings i.e.the economic organization for Humanomics.
The ancient societies and communities were so small and fragmented that the economic activities were mainly family managed. The economic development in such societies was completely independent of external factors. The economic organization required for societies of those times was completely of endogenous type. The problem of poverty, unemployment and disparities in those societies therefore were not evolved in the form of social evils of economic organizations. The ancient philosophies and religion thus had not focused much on the creation of economic organization required to achieve the target of religion. They have just prescribed certain code of conduct in terms of dos and don'ts for achieving the targets of spiritual life. They were just prescriptions for Atmā. But the industrial revolution of the west has changed the structure of economic activities which was based on large scale production and the need for large markets to sale the produced goods. This created the need for different types of economic organization to fulfill the requirements of that economy. The organizations which had evolved over the time to serve the requirements of industrialization were landlordism, feudalism, capitalism, communism, socialism etc. All these types of organizations which gained ground over the last two-three centuries or so have been emphasizing on production and consumption for curing social evils specially poverty and unemployment. Production was assumed as, a panacea for all economic and social issues. All these forms of economic originations were basically planning to maximize the production or consumption. The focus * Professor and Head, School of Economics, Devi Ahilya University, INDORE-452001 ** Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, Govt. Holkar Autonomous Science College,
Indore-452001
