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In July 2009, as the GFC played itself out, Pope Benedict XV1 issued a papal letter - an encyclical - suggesting that love - caritas - binds us in society and in the market economy. What sense can an economist make of this? Or theologians? Or indeed the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne? He can make little sense of the encyclical and surprisingly it's the economist who warms to the Pope's words.

By William Bowles Featured WriterDandelion SaladCreative-i 1 September 2009I often wonder how Karl Marx would react were he to find himself here, right now? After all, he too lived through momentous and world-changing times, perhaps even more so than the changes we are experiencing, given that his was the world that gave birth to the rise of the Machine and capitalism as we know it. Born on the cusp so-to-speak and I too, was born on the cusp, 23 July, 1945, a couple of weeks before the empire s

I often wonder how Karl Marx would react were he to find himself here, right now? After all, he too lived through momentous and world-changing times, perhaps even more so than the changes we are experiencing, given that his was the world that gave birth to the rise of the Machine and capitalism as we know it. Born on the cusp so-to-speak and I too, was born on the cusp, 23 July, 1945, a couple of weeks before the empire showed the world that it was truly barbarian when it dropped atomic bombs on

The elites of financial capitalism have a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the people of the world as a whole. This system will be controlled in a feudalist fashion by a new global government that in essence, it is not to be accountable to the people of the world.Introduction Following the 2009 G20 summit, plans were announced for implementing the creation of