Sublime

We were promised economic dynamism in exchange for inequality. We got the inequality, but dynamism is actually declining. Call it stagnequality—lower growth combined with rising inequality rather than inflation. It is no surprise, then, that the public has rejected conventional economic wisdom.

Finalement, la crise agricole qui frappe surtout les paysans déracinés et les urbains du Sud est issue des effets de la mondialisation au triple visage (globalisation, développement, occidentalisation), du déferlement incontrôlé de l’économie capitaliste, avec l’extension de l’agriculture industrialisée et toutes ses conséquences.

of larger society. So that’s a very old battle in human history between the self-serving stories of an elite and the stories that can actually help serve a broader society. Part of what we’ve seen in our economics is that elites previously used to appeal to gods, to how our ancestors did it, to the natural order, etc., to make credible their storie