How does Sufficiency Economy go with free trade and globalisation?
Free trade and globalisation is there. We cannot reject it. And we don’t have to accept everything of it, because free trade is choice. You can have free trade or not or at any level with some other countries. It’s your choice. Now, how does it go with Sufficiency Economy? The principles make us prepared to live in a globalised world by endowing us with wisdom and morality. Make a choice that fits well with your conditions, with consideration of all causes and effects, and with preparedness for comingchanges. Then in the end, we can protect ourselves and we can share benefits with society too. Q: Thailand is a capitalistic country like a western country. If this philosophy supports sustainable development, how much room is there for the liberal market-oriented policies that Thailand seems to advocate? How can they go hand in hand? A: They can go hand in hand, and SEP will lead the market-oriented policies towards sustainable development path. Why? The world has been talking about susta
