CAPITALISM
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Shape of pervasive system’s future unsure
If I am sure about anything regarding capitalism, it is that it is not just about the way we do business, or everyday commercial or productive processes
Most columnists write about things that interest them, about things they hold dear or that they feel qualified to discuss. Many are experts in their field. I certainly am not an expert at anything and, if the truth be told, I have a kind of aversion to experts. I simply enjoy "the act of writing". This is something similar to Arthur Koestler’s The Act of Creation but less formulaic and less predictable. As it goes, I have a greater interest in literary nonfiction, increasingly in essay writing, than I do in the political economy, the area in which I received formal training in higher education. I should probably not have let the editor know this. Anyway, the first 15 years of my professional life were spent trying to make it as a journalist, and the next 15-20 in and out of academia and public policy-making. I have picked up a few things along the way. So, like most columnists and public intellectuals, I am sometimes asked terribly difficult questions at the most awkward times. The ...
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