The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

An 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.

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.