Governments are liberating global corporations from the rule of law and leaving them to rip the world apartWhat bear governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could finish the same job with one word: nothing.
Actually,that’s too generous. The lessons learned are counter-lessons, anti-knowledge, or new policies that could scarcely be better designed to ensure the crisis recurs,this time with added momentum and fewer remedies. And the financial crisis is just one of the multiple crises – in tax collection, public spending, or public health and,above all, ecology – that the same counter-lessons accelerate.
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Source: theguardian.com