Four Horsemen
Since the financial crisis that struck in 2008, the failings of the banking system have been laid bare for all to see. But, four years…
Four Horsemen
Since the advent of agriculture, and the realization by certain people that control over land is the surest route to political power, all human societies…
Four Horsemen
If the very workings of the economic system are denying people the opportunity to take responsibility for their own wellbeing, is it any wonder that…
Four Horsemen
Poverty is blighting the lives of millions of people, and the environmental crisis is already making things worse. As with poverty, our failure to tackle…
Four Horsemen
Haven’t we been here before? Three centuries ago philosophers began to address these questions in the movement known as the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant described it…
Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones that direct our economies and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favours, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?
Elizabeth Warren
Four Horsemen
Over centuries, systems have been subtly modified, manipulated and sometimes purposefully corrupted to better serve the interests of the few. Each time Enlightenment ideals have…
Four Horsemen
As Gillian Tett of The Financial Times observes, “Most societies have an elite and the elite try to stay in power; and the way they…
Four Horsemen
Former World Bank chief economist Josef Stiglitz discusses the false assumptions of what leads to economic efficiency.
Four Horsemen
This book does not call for a lurch back to the left, however. If politics is to be of any use in facing down the…