Book description
Emphasising human-scale, local, sustainable alternatives to
globalised industry, Sulak Sivaraksa offers a way to restructure our
economy on Buddhist principles and on a basis that will promote
personal development.
Based on decades of thought and writing
Sivaraksa outlines how measuring economic success by GDP (Gross
Domestic Product) could be replaced by GNH (Gross National Happiness).
It examines globalisation from a Buddhist perspective, arguing that
healing the planet starts by creating sustainability at the individual
and global levels.
Sulak Sivaraksa is one of Asia's leading intellectuals, interested in
sustainable models for a changing economic and social environment. He
has published over 100 books, and was awarded the Right Livelihood Award
(known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 1995 and has twice been
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
