Synopsis In ‘Zen Economics’, Van de Weyer combines economic analysis with social and philosophical insight to reveal how the entire world is on the verge of an economic and social transformation. Thrift on a global scale, for from causing stagnation will enable many of the world’s most intractable problems to be solved. In fact Weyer offers practical financial and personal advice on how to participate in & cope with this global change. It is most important message is that in the Western world most of us have reached a point of prosperity where the investment with the highest rate of return is investing in the self.