Category: Indonesia

Selamat pagi from Bukit Lawang,         Before corporations first gained their legal status as a person, they were much more benign, much less inclined to rape and pillage. They had charters, to build railways or bridges or such like, projects for the common good. When corporations lost their conscience by gaining their new status as legal …Read More

Selamat pagi from Bukit Lawang in northern Sumatra,      I once had a lighthearted argument/discussion with a pupil who was just embarking on her career as an Economics student. I averred that there was no such thing as consumer sovereignty (in the same way as one might argue that there’s no such thing as …Read More