Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.
What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.