Abstract Surveillance capitalism hinges on the appropriationand commercialisationof personal datafor profit-making. This chapter spotlights three cases connected to surveillance capitalism: data appropriation, monetisationof health and unfair commercial practice when “free” isn’t “free”. It discusses related ethical concerns of powerinequality, privacy protection, lack transparencyand explainab...

This paper discusses Buddhist economics as a potential future for capitalism. In the 1970s, EF Schumacher proposed a form of Buddhist economics aimed at smallness, simplicity and non-violence. The major contribution of the present paper is to revise and update Schumacher’s and others’ work on Buddhist economics, first because of the changing spirit of capitalism from heavy to light capitalism a...

Compassionate capitalism combines the concepts of communism, which aimed for equitable distribution wealth, with principles work, opportunity, and just economic compensation. The socialist paradigms from Marx other contemporaries when seamlessly is merged “ Economic Individualism” Adam Smith its contemporaries, should lead to what can be called Capitalism. currently defined as “the equal access...

Abstract With the societal cracks resulting from decade-long neoliberal policies becoming increasingly visible in many countries, capitalism as most suitable institutional system to produce material wealth, environmental sustainability and social stability has come under growing attack. This contribution examines what army of recent heterodox scholars economics business have say on one could ca...