Principal Civilization Change--as the change we need?

Derek Shearer: Obama's America: What Is Economic Growth For?: "There has been too much talk of 'bending the cost curve' and not enough talk about how a decent country should treat all of its citizens."

Shearer, who is a former US Ambassador and now a Professor of Diplomacy at the Occidental College brings up the report from Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi from the Commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress and hopes that Sarkozy will distribute it at the Pittsburg G20 meeting. It is along the same vein as the GPI measurement that I discussed the other day.

He also regrets that president Obama did not bring on a more reformist group of economists. He chose Larry Summers, Timothy Geitner and Christina Roemer instead of Joseph Stiglitz, James Galbraith, Paul Krugman, and Barry Bluestone.

I have asked earlier for a real development in the Western Civilization that would take us to the next level of existence and set an example to follow for the developing world that perhaps even could make a short cut in their own development in order to save resources on the planet. The above might be worth considering.