Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

Culture changes with economic development.