Sublime

the rich invest in time. The poor invest in money.

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy, the language of public life, and the mindset that shapes society. ‘In these early decades of the twenty-first century, the master story is economic: economic beliefs, values and assumptions are shaping how we think, feel and act,’ writes F. S. Michaels in her book Monoculture: How One Story is Changi

and www.socioeco.org offers an excellent resource in this area.

Today economists and politicians debate with confident ease in the name of economic efficiency, productivity and growth – as if those values were self-explanatory – while hesitating to speak of justice, fairness and rights.