What can be done to fix the deeply flawed world of finance? Have the schemers and fraudsters been exposed and brought to book? If not, why not? Who is to regulate the regulators? What needs to be done to avoid chronic budget deficits, reduce mountains of public debt and stimulate real job-creating economic growth? Which parts of the economic dilemma are structural in nature and which parts are only cyclical and therefore less serious? Why are economists not ad idem on what needs to be done? What are the prerequisites for a stable and prosperous society?
How can the rise of big government and overgrown public bureaucracy be curtailed? How should sound economic growth policies and strategies be selected? Which development model is preferable: the Anglo-Saxon Free Market, the Continental Welfare State or the East Asian Capitalist Intervention? What is the role of religion in today’s world? These are questions ordinary taxpaying citizens have to face. Understanding as much as possible of the world in which we live is, after all, an important obligation resting on all thoughtful citizens.