If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

Subsidize... or lend.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.