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Śramana, Vol 55, No. 10-12/October-December 2004
has remarked that India is going to damage its own economy very badly, by opening its market for the Western countries and taking help from them on different conditions.
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This will cause the poverty of 50 kroras agriculturists. Moreover it will be considered as one of the great crimes of history.
Dainika Jāgaraṇa, p. 11, Dated 31 August, 2002
The Arthaśästra of Kautilya is well-known in Indian literature in which wealth and its importance have been explained. Adam Smith the father of Modern Western Economics has defined economics as
"Economics is a subject concerned with an enquiry into the nature of causes of wealth of nations'
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A Western thinker Marshall has defined economics in the following way.
"Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life, it examines that part of individual social actions which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of well-being"
Economics consists of
1) Production
2) Consumption
3) Distribution
4) Exchange
5) Service
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The economic aspect of non-violence may be known after studying these parts of economics. Where and how far violence or non-violence is related with economic problems can never be seen till these parts are not analysed.
As it is well-known, non-violence has its two form - (i) Negative form which is the opposition of violence (ii) Positive form is nonviolence in itself. Here also these two parts of non-violence may be observed in the five parts of economics.
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