Professor Piketty offers early-20th-century France as an example. “France was a democracy and yet the system did not respond to an incredible concentration of wealth and an incredible level of inequality,” he said. “The elites just refused to see it. They kept claiming that the free market was going to solve everything.”It didn’t.
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Lisa Eriksen
I am an independent consultant to museums and the project director for the CAM's Leaders of the Future: Museum Professionals Developing Strategic Foresight project. I have a certificate in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston and serve on faculty at JFKU Museum Studies program.