EAN: 9780141994161

GREED IS DEAD - PAUL COLLIER JOHN KAY KARTONIER...

Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of
prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' Telegraph Throughout history 
successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation
to achieve complex goals of general benefit. These institutions make the difference between
societies that thrive and those paralyzed by discord  the difference between prosperous and
poor economies. Such societies are pluralist but their pluralism is disciplined. Successful
societies are also rare and fragile. We could not have built modernity without the exceptional
competitive and co-operative instincts of humans  but in recent decades the balance between
these instincts has become dangerously skewed: mutuality has been undermined by an extreme
individualism which has weakened co-operation and polarized our politics. Collier and Kay show
how a reaffirmation of the values of mutuality could refresh and restore politics  business and
the environments in which people live. Politics could reverse the moves to extremism and
tribalism  businesses could replace the greed that has degraded corporate culture  the
communities and decaying places that are home to many could overcome despondency and again be
prosperous and purposeful. As the world emerges from an unprecedented crisis we have the chance
to examine society afresh and build a politics beyond individualism.

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