The anti-globalization breakfast club : manifesto for a peaceful revolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brahm, Laurence J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2009.
Subjects:	Capitalism > Social aspects. Capitalism > Environmental aspects. Capitalism > Social aspects > South Asia. Capitalism > Environmental aspects > South Asia. Anti-globalization movement. Anti-globalization movement > South Asia. Globalization. Globalization > South Asia. Economic development > Social aspects. Economic development > Social aspects > South Asia.

Table of Contents:

Global meltdown : the Washington consensus goes bust
What's wrong with the Washington consensus? : it forces alien, irrelevant models on developing societies
The world needs an alternative : confessions of a former commercial lawyer
Grassroots approaches that solve real problems : founding an NGO in the Himalayas
The anti-globalization breakfast club : emergence of a global justice movement
Time to revamp the WTO : joining the anti-globalisation breakfast club
Redefining contemporary development : trash the ideology and use what works
The environmental priority : we are ruining the earth faster than the global economy is growing
The micro-credit revolution works : small finance is beautiful and can improve lives
Begin by reshaping values : the "gross national happiness" alternative
Empowering the marginalized : to stop terrorism, focus on its roots
"High time to shut up" : moving towards multilateralism
The revolt against cyclical poverty : Nepalese Maoists come in from the cold
Starting from the villages : in Sri Lanka's countryside, a middle road
The Buddhist revolution : why compassion should be combined with capitalism
Enter the Himalayan consensus : manifesto for a peaceful revolution.