http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/16/a-chance-to-reshape-the-economy/four-ways-to-fix-the-economy?emc=eta1
Wishful thinking!
If insight and good will were the dynamics of development, the human race had reached the perfect nirvana ages ago!
It is important to have visions and suggestions, but the driving forces of society are fundamental mechanisms. Even if you understand those fundamental mechanisms, it is only possible to change the direction of society if such a mechanism is in a balanced state where a small push can make it alter cause.
In France at the time of the Revolution the feudal forces had been so oppressive that it resulted in a brutal revolution, and short after a regression to dictatorship (Napoleon).
In Denmark the intelligentsia of the nobility saw what was coming and started a process where the land laws were changed and the peasants freed from serfdom. No violent revolution took place and instead a modernisation process was started leading to one of the most societal advanced countries in the world.
The positive development in Denmark was instituted by changing the fundamental flaws of society and subsequently a dynamic process developed making way for a massive popular cultural and educational ideology that contributed to changing the feudal society to a modern democratic society.
Had the fundamentals of landownership not been changed to the satisfaction of both the nobility and the peasants, a smooth and non violent transition would not have been possible.
To understand the fundamental mechanisms of today go to.
