Historian Niall Ferguson suggests that much of what's gone wrong with the global financial system stems from the triumph of tranactions over relationships, the triumph of "Planet Finance", with its derivatives valued at around USD700 trillion, over "Planet Earth" with its annual global GDP of only USD50 trillion.
Is this just the largest scale example yet of the growing global imbalance between value and values - i.e. between how much people are worth outwardly, in terms of financial value, and what they're worth inwardly, in terms of values-driven behaviour (compassion, sustainability etc?)
