Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, has raised some fundamental questions about the standard textbooks of economics which are used not only in the US but in man...
For thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution, per capita incomes of humanity were largely stagnant with only some small variations. Life expectancy was low.Poverty, deprivation, and disease were widespread. During this period, many eminent spiritual leaders emerged who, among other things...