Insuperable socio-economic and ecological crises demonstrate the need to challenge economic growth ideology that is often embedded in contemporary tourism science. By borrowing from Buddhist philosophy this essay describes inconsistencies in economic theorizing due to its adoption of the Cartesian ontology implying a mechanistic thinking form. Following philosopher Brodbeck (2014), economic science is neither an empirically exact science nor value-free but represents an implicit ethics. To build on this, the elements of a post-mechanistic economic theory are sketched (Brodbeck, 2001). The applicability of this concept is corroborated by instances of current tourism research. After reinterpreting the homo economicus and the nature of money an agenda for a transformative tourism science building upon post-Cartesian economic thinking and Buddhist philosophy is elaborated.

无法克服的社会经济和生态危机表明需要挑战当代旅游科学中经常存在的经济增长意识形态。本文借用佛教哲学，描述了经济理论由于采用了暗示机械思维形式的笛卡尔本体论而存在的不一致之处。按照哲学家布罗贝克（Brodbeck，2014）的说法，经济科学既不是经验上精确的科学，也不是价值中立的，而是代表了一种隐含的伦理学。在此基础上，勾勒出后机械经济理论的要素（Brodbeck，2001）。当前旅游研究的实例证实了这一概念的适用性。在重新解释经济人和货币本质之后，阐述了建立在后笛卡尔经济思想和佛教哲学基础上的变革性旅游科学议程。