Chapter 8
Humanising Capitalism:Which Way Forward?
‘Take the long view, and fight like crazy’
Inner City Foundation1
‘The test of any economic system must be the type of individual it tends to reproduce’
J R Bellerby2
People everywhere dream of better days to come, when poverty is no more, discrimination and violence have been banished for good, the air is clean and all are free to enjoy life to the full. Of course, we all wake up to a very different reality, but that has never stopped us from trying to change it for the better. Utopians apart, we know that we can never have a perfect world, but why can't we find a better balance between economic growth, political freedom, social cohesion and the preservation of what we care for in ourselves ...
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