The mind of the economist has to now stop thinking in the language of consumption. All they talk of is demand and supply, production and consumption. Consumption is not the way ahead. Economics and spirituality have to converge now. You cannot keep measuring human wellness by human consumption anymore. Not possible.

And remember, you cannot ask whether the fellow has basic means of survival because, as we said, the developed world already has those means, and within a few decades almost all of the developing world, too, will have those means. Those things will become irrelevant soon. Then you will have to train yourself, as an economist, to ask: Does the fellow really understand life? Does the fellow really know love?

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