Editorial

Author Lesley Pocock

Well the G20 has come and gone and apart from some fancy rhetoric and a commitment to control the worst excesses, it failed to address any of the basic issues concerning mankind.

Business and economics is not divorced from social and ethical issues, and if most of the world is economically deprived while a small number of people have obscene wealth, then obviously we have failed generally as a species, yet again.

This issue is devoted to the theme of economics and society and all articles published indicate business and economics as the most serious concern to social advancement, whether it be the failing to stop child slave labour, wars affecting development on all levels and national development from a population viewpoint.

We need to constantly strive to put humanity before destructive, immoral and foolish business practices, but in the doing so, we create all sorts of new sustainable and ethical business that will need to actively repair our planet if we are to all eb alive at the end of this century.