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Rich Countries Have 'kicked Away The Ladder' By Forcing Free-market, Free-trade Policies On Poor Countries. Already Established Countries Do Not Want More Competitors Emerging Through The Nationalistic Policies They Themselves Successfully Used In The Past.

Democracy And Markets Are Both Fundamental Building Blocks For A Decent Society. But They Clash At A Fundamental Level. We Need To Balance Them.

The Days Are Over When Technology Can Be Advanced In Laboratories By Individual Scientists Alone. Now You Need An Army Of Lawyers To Negotiate The Hazardous Terrain Of Interlocking Patents. Unless We Find A Solution To The Problem Of Interlocking Patents, The Patent System May Actually Impede The Very Innovation It Was Designed To Encourage.

Between The Great Depression And The 1970s, Private Business Was Viewed With Suspicion Even In Most Capitalist Economies. Businesses Were, So The Story Goes, Seen As Anti-social Agents Whose Profit-seeking Needed To Be Restrained For Other, Supposedly Loftier, Goals, Such As Justice, Social Harmony, Protection Of The Weak And Even National Glory.

A Well-designed Welfare State Can Actually Encourage People To Take Chances With Their Jobs And Be More, Not Less, Open To Changes.