Our capacity for shortsightedness, bias, and provincialism is perhaps our greatest weakness.
This document gives evidence of the first, and foreshadows the coming of the second.
While its roots are deep in our past, over the last three decades we have witnessed an explosion of
innovation as a growing international community of individuals has experimented with a great variety
of approaches to fulfilling one basic idea:
Markets and business, capital and commerce can be harnessed not simply for the creation of individual
wealth, but rather the creation of value in its fullest.