Pedestrians are reflected in a stock market indicator board in Tokyo, Japan, on January 29. Economics can no longer be allowed to run riot, independent of politics, sociology and ecology. It just does not add up. Photo: EPA-EFE
Opinion
Opinion
Andrew Sheng
The free market is a destructive myth. Down with the free market
Andrew Sheng says the free market is a bad idea that probably belongs in the rubbish bin of history. A system where human beings and mother nature have been reduced to cogs and commodities has brought only misery, and climate change