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maladaptive, as the terms left wing and right wing simply<br />

serve to divide rather than integrate. My mother voted<br />

National because she believed in the freedom of the<br />

individual, while my father voted Labour because he<br />

believed the state had a responsibility for the people.<br />

Decades later, I now see that they were both right.<br />

The Challenge for Economists<br />

The biggest advances in terms of economic reform will<br />

come about when economists themselves join the fight for<br />

healthy money system. While it is very difficult to unlearn<br />

what they have learnt at university, they are well placed to<br />

devise a model based on the laws of nature. Many<br />

economists already have serious concerns about the<br />

instability of the world economy, and worry that<br />

conventional theory is not solving the problems of<br />

currency collapse or increased indebtedness. The fact that<br />

economics might be related to the environmental crisis<br />

and that the economy is dependent on the ecosystem<br />

might dawn on some of them. As the Antarctic ice breaks

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