OP-ED: The Hamiltonian Ground, By DAVID BROOKS, New York Times, October 12, 2007
Neat piece by Brooks, primarily for beginning. We need the American Hamiltons and Lincolns regarding globalization: leaders who understand the desire of the "middle economies" that Zoellick describes now at the World Bank. That global "middle class" sitting around kitchen tables, trying to scheme their kids into better lives, represents a huge pool of ambition that must be both tapped and assuaged by history's advance.
Where are those world leaders?
This is something Steve DeAngelis and I worry about a great deal.
(Thanks: Dan Hare)
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Comments (2)
David Brooks is a master at asymptoticly approaching some point that he seems to not realize is obvious. Here he makes the point that having fair and intellegent leaders would be a good thing. Can I get paid to write insights like that?
And of course it wouldn't be a David Brooks without the word "populist" thrown in there somewhere. He is a romantic at heart, wanting to believe that good people will just get along.
I wonder if Mr. Brooks knows that Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln and Margaret Thatcher were all lawyers (well Thatcher was a chemist first). What they all had the intellect to create were laws that increased fairness. That is something we are sorely lacking today.
Freedom from tyranny is something that we humans have struggled mightily to scrape together over thousands of years -- we have done by increasing the rule of law.
Posted by Christopher Thompson | October 16, 2007 4:49 PM
I think you answered your own question,
businesses move faster then governments which move faster then the armed forces right?
so the world leaders are in the businesses, like you and Steve.
Posted by vinit joshi | October 16, 2007 10:10 PM