The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century
Mar 2011 · Souvenir Press
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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.
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 s...
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About the author
Sulak Sivaraksa is a Thai social activist, professor, writer and the founder and director of the Thai NGO, Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation.
Sulak Sivaraksa is a Thai social activist, professor, writer and the founder and director of the Thai NGO, Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation.
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