If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
David KortenThe professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
David KortenSo, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.
David KortenAn economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.
David Korten