People Who Live In Poor Countries Have

Equality Of Opportunity Is Not Enough. Unless We Create An Environment Where Everyone Is Guaranteed Some Minimum Capabilities Through Some Guarantee Of Minimum Income, Education, And Healthcare, We Cannot Say That We Have Fair Competition. When Some People Have To Run A 100 Metre Race With Sandbags On Their Legs, The Fact That No One Is Allowed To Have A Head Start Does Not Make The Race Fair. Equality Of Opportunity Is Absolutely Necessary But Not Sufficient In Building A Genuinely Fair And Efficient Society.

Rational Thinking Is An Important Aspect Of Human Nature, But We Have Imagination, We Have Ambition, We Have Irrational Fear, We Are Swayed By Other People, We Get Indoctrinated And We Get Influenced By Advertising.

The Top 10 Per Cent Of The Us Population Appropriated 91 Per Cent Of Income Growth Between 1989 And 2006, While The Top 1 Per Cent Took 59 Per Cent.

Gore Vidal, The American Writer, Once Described The American Economic System As 'free Enterprise For The Poor And Socialism For The Rich'. Macroeconomic Policy On The Global Scale Is A Bit Like That. It Is Keynesianism For The Rich Countries And Monetarism For The Poor.

The Free Market Doesn't Exist. Every Market Has Some Rules And Boundaries That Restrict Freedom Of Choice. A Market Looks Free Only Because We So Unconditionally Accept Its Underlying Restrictions That We Fail To See Them.