I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

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.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.