Posted by: SP | May 24, 2009

The New Physics of Power

Great Charlie Rose interview with Joshua Cooper Ramo, a managing director with Kissinger Associates and author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It.

Money quote: “What capitalism appears to be at this point is the most efficient engine for creating inequality in human history. It does a lots of other good things but its creating a situation where the wealth gap on the planet is greater than it’s ever been before. That’s fundamentally unsustainable.”

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  1. Would you call this a must read? Snazzy quote but he doesn’t follow it up with a citation from his book, any chance he addresses this more than just acknowledges it?


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