Sunday, October 11, 2009

Don't bail out a system that has no values

I have been enriched today. Which is why I am going to share this pearl with you (as against dumping my own gems on here).
Joseph Stiglitz, (deserving) Nobel prize winner for Economics, wrote a wonderful column in which he argued that Norman Borlaug, the man who is responsible for millions of Indians not starving to death and the global green revolution, for which he got the (deserved) Nobel Peace, would probably have been a banker on Wall Street had he been brought up with today’s values. Instead, he was a genius whose value system demanded he serve others.

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