Monday, 15 November 2010

The Shrink & The Sage: Status

"The way to deal with the “fact” that status matters is not simply to accept as inevitable the importance of our position on the economic league table. A better approach might be to try to change the assumptions we have about what should be valued. Status is not simply a given of nature: it is something that we confer."
Latest column in this weekend's FT magazine (13/14 November)