The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Subsidize... or lend.
Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.