About Laurence J Brahm

Editorial Reviews

Change is desperately needed in the wake of the global economic meltdown and collapse of the financial order. The world cries out for a new economic model that will lead the way to a more enlightened future. This book represents a significant contribution to the debate. Author Laurence Brahm's experience-based paradigm, the Himalayan consensus, integrates U.N. millennium goals of protecting our environment, reducing poverty and closing income gaps between rich and poor. This requires re-engineering our basic assumptions about market economics and overhauling the models we have taken for granted, heralding a new era of compassionate development. This book will make you rethink the values and motivations that drive us every day.

The Peaceful Revolution sets forth a blueprint for a new form of compassionate capitalism. While some may see if as radical, others will view it is a prophetic vision of a new order structured according to the concrete needs of contemporary development. It calls for a world of prioritized environmental protection, ethnic diversity and cultural sustainability, declaring credit, health care and a clean environment to be universal human rights.

Brahm builds his arguments upon personal experience. Tracking his years as a central bank advisor to Asian economies in transition from socialism to market economies, he reveals the struggles with the IMF and World Bank over policy decisions that set in play new Asian growth models.

Traveling across South Asia from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to Nepal, India and Pakistan, he explores the common concerns of grassroots organizations and fuses them into a concord of ideas that offer an alternative to the Washington Consensus.