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.

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.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

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.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.