TY - BOOK AU - Brahm,Laurence J. TI - The anti-globalization breakfast club: manifesto for a peaceful revolution SN - 9780470823170 PY - 2009/// CY - Singapore, Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons (Asia) KW - Capitalism KW - Social aspects KW - Environmental aspects KW - South Asia KW - Anti-globalization movement N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -