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