If the people who set the prices are the same people who set the production levels, then it’s not really a market, and true supply and demand are a farce. David Rothkopf, author of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, says that Europe is leading the planet in green e...
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Is this the system that we want? What’s the purpose of the system? What's the objective of the system? Because for a long time, we believe that the metric to judge, whether society is successful, is economic growth. And the metric within economic growth is sort of net gains in GDP per person or ...
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We can’t legislate against historical trends in the global age, but we can look more closely at the well-networked superclass - those who have broad influence across international borders on a regular basis. The Superclass has money, power, and influence - but it's woefully short on ethics in th...
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Sheer brainpower, strength in numbers, and good old fashioned networking is how the nature of world influence is established. Skewed and disproportionate, modern power structures that regulate global problems happen only when the elite meet, says author David Rothkopf. And decisions made based o...
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Denmark is doing well as an economy. Sweden has grown at four and a half or 5% for the past couple of years. Denmark gets almost 20% of their power from wind. Sweden has decided that they will be petroleum-free by 2020. Europe is leading on green technology because there has never been a...
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Just twenty percent of the members in any group or social system own eighty percent of the assets, indicative that scale indicates a growing concentration of power. The top 2,000 companies employ and influences a million people in the modern world, says author David Rothkopf. With cross-ownershi...
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The reality is it’s not conspiracy. What brings this group, its power, is that very often this very different, this very diverse people find that their interest align. And when the interest of the most powerful align about taxes or about regulation or about politics or about global warm...
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And power has grown more and more concentrated. Some of you may be familiar with the works of the Italian economist, Wilfredo Pareto, who came up with, at the turn of the century, 80-20 Rule. The 80-20 Rule is wonderful because it applies to everything. It applies to dog racing. 20% of ...
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Communities aren’t defined the way they used to be. Throughout history, one of the big trends is the redefinition of the size of community. It has been started out. How far could you walk? How far away could you conduct business? It was a walk, and then it was a wagon trip and then it was a hors...
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This episode of FOREIGN EXCHANGE with Daljit Dhaliwal features: Freelance diplomats, getting back to work in Rwanda, and the world's most privileged club. Foreign Exchange: where America meets the world.
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David Rothkopf visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his new book "Superclass: The Global Power Elite & the World They Are Making. "Superclass draws back the curtain on a privil...
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