If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
From Susan George
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.
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
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.
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
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