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The Oly mpicOpening Ceremonylast Fridaynight was a
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unified whole, showing the good, bad, and uglyof British history . 6 In Alliance with the West and Israel, the Saudi-led al-
Britain, one of the bastions of feudalism in the past has appeared Qaeda Elements Have Already Started an All-out
to have c ome to terms with her infamy banishing the disease to
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the annuls of history.
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Islamicsc holar Prof Tariq Ramadan visited the town where the author is domic iled. Prof Ramadan
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wrote a blog after his trip describing a mosque built on the shore with some wind and solar power Crisis of Dementia or Sign of Irreversible Anemia?
generation[1]. He saw the mosque as sy mbolicof Malay sia’s rejection of US values, and the
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I guess perc eption and meaning is in the ey of the beholder, or alternativelyTariq Ramadan had
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visited the town in some parallel universe. The mosque is loc ated in one of the poorest states of
Malay where anypublicdisc
sia ussion of Islam requires a lic e from the authorities.
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Given that there is little shortage of plac of worship one c
es ould easilythink that the funds used to
build the mosque mayhave better served the c ause of Islamichumanism byassisting in elevating
poverty Grand infrastruc
. ture and the grand projec to build the ic
ts ons are sy mbolicnot of Islamic
humanism, but rather the gulf between the empowered and powerless in the c ountry .
These two events c aused me to reflec on a disease that still festers in manyparts of the world –
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the curse of feudalism. Feudalism is an affliction upon humankind, akin to apartheid and slavery .
The nature of feudalism inhibits people, communities, and nations from making the nec essary
transformation within ec onomyand soc ietythat will ensure escape from the shackles of poverty to
,
survival with dignityoutside the envelop of ignoranc that prevents emergenc into an aspired
e e
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What is even more amazing is that authors like Messrs Beinhoc ker, Diamond, Friedman, Ohmae,
Porter, and Sac have had little, if not any
hs, thing to sayon this matter. Feudalism has been treated Ban’s anti-Syria stance threatening UN existence:
like leprosy its existenc deigned.
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Traditionallyfeudalism referred to the order of soc ietyin medieval Europe between the 9th and 16th VIDEO)
centuries. Feudalism c ould be described as soc ietygoverned bythose eligible through birthright, US position on Syria directly endorses terrorism –
relationships with the favoured and landed gentry . Lavrov
Feudalism c be seen as a grant of land, the sharing of power and privilege in return for favour
an VIDEO: Scattered gun fights sound ‘Battle for
and loy , and a struc
alty turing of societywith well defined lay where eac lay forms a sub-
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Ec onomicorganization will also follow this hierarc al order where wealth will be c entrated
hic onc
within the upper echelons of soc . There are normallyveryfew vertic movements of people up
iety al VIDEO: Lavrov-Clinton talks: ‘Very good chance’ of
and down the hierarc .
hy progress on Syria in Geneva
The basis of power is through land, capital, military or politic c
, al ontrol, and these arrangements are Photos +MORE
hereditaryand within selec families from generation to generation.
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Through analogy the c ept of feudalism extended to Shogunate Japan, parts of Afric the
, onc a,
kingdoms of the Middle East, South Asia, Latin Americ South Americ and to the “Malay”
a, a,
Archipelago (Nusantara).
Although there was a movement to sponge the term in the 1970s’[2]; unlike the eradication of polio,
the causes and symptoms of feudalism didn’t disappear. Feudalism in various forms still exists in
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one form or another, and its best to call a spade, a spade.
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The c eptual nature of feudalism c be seen to exist within three lay
onc an ers.
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The first lay c
er onsists of the institutions and assoc iated mec hanisms of the “rule of law”. Due to
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wide variations across the world, feudalism ac ross this lay is diffic to prec
er ult iselydesc ribe.
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However it isn’t so important whether the power base of institutions is based on divinity theoc y
, rac ,
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roy peerage, militaryauthority or c
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of a Second Chinese Social Revolution?
One of the most important c harac teristic is that entryand membership of institutions is based on
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Position, authority and promotion usuallyinvolve some form of nepotism. Verystrong power-
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distanc relationships help to maintain an unquestioned authoritywithin these institutions. Dealings
e
with outside parties and stakeholders are usuallyundertaken through c hosen and selec parties
ted 4 Asia Times Reports Saudi Spy Chief Prince Bandar
that are formallyor informallylinked to the leadership of the institution. Assassinated
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Manyof these institutions utilize the dogma theydevelop as means that c annot be questioned
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without some form of fear bythe general population with covert or overt threats of punishment by
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Under suc a regime the rule of law is used as an instrument of c
h ontrol, utilized for the interests of
Innocent Syrian Populations
the power-elite. Institutions strive for absolute power over a range of strategicassets important to
the economyof the c ountry even though the c
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through various informal methods suc as extra-legal and extra-judic ac
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The second lay of feudalism is the waypeople in soc
er ietyare structured. In manysocieties this 80% of Americans Think Iran’s Nuclear Program
c be veryovert where even ‘titled peerages’ spec c
an ify lass. Threatens the US
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In one modern developing c ountrygovernment departments serving the publiceven have spec ial
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rooms to serve ‘VVIPs”. Other signs maybe more c overt where level of education divides soc iety
Arrogance
into the ‘educated’ that ‘believe they know what’s best’, and the ‘undereducated’. This divide is the
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What is perhaps most important is that potential opportunities for people to enric their lives
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through entrepreneurial and business opportunities is severelylimited to groups outside the
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‘privileged’. The most lucrative opportunities are the sole prerogative of small groups under various
guises c alled cronyism or nepotism, etc.
Due to the formal market restric tions bylicensing and c ontrol over land manyc ountries appear to
be ‘business friendly’ but are certainlynot ‘market friendly’, where large businesses operate under
protection as monopolies or oligopolies. This brings great inefficienc to the ec
y onomyin a similar
manner the ‘import replacement tariffs’ of the 1960s in manydeveloping ec onomies at the time.
As a consequenc major businesses in manySouth East Asian nations are in the hands of onlya
e
few dozen families. Wealth is c entrated and through their position and developed c
onc omplac y
enc ,
these groups tend to invest in relativelylow risk rent seeking investments.
Manybusinesses are based upon resourc monopolies and large trac of land are stripped in
e ts
pursuit of large profits under the thinlyveiled name of development. This is not just restric to the
ted
large firms of the nation. Farmers with c onnec tions to loc authorities are able to go into state and
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national forests almost unc ked and c
hec arve out as muc land as theyc for their ac
h an tivities.
In suc soc
h ieties resourc are stripped for personal benefit at a c to the environment. This is an
es ost
extremelyimportant fac c tor ontributing to global warming that has barelybeen mentioned in
debate, let alone ac upon. Feudal soc
ted ieties are a major contributor to global warming.
The third lay of feudalism is the most damaging to soc
er iety– mindset. In feudal like soc ieties the
elite work with the assumption that ‘we are the law’ and operate ac ordingly festering an ambienc
c , e
of narcissism through the upper ec helons of soc . Perc
iety eptions, ideas, and attitudes bec ome
fixed where soc ietysettles into a complac patterning.
ent
In contrast, rural population live in an ambienc of hopelessness and resignation of the assumption
e
that ‘this is how life is’. The onlygroups that have muc freedom of opportunityare the urban
h
newc omers who are able to find employ ment or open a micro-enterprise within the major cities and
towns.
Suc is the evolved mindset of these ty
h pes of societies; conservatism, risk adversity ego-c
, entrality,
self interest, and lac of c ern about the environment bec
k onc ome the dominant traits of people and
order of things. This mindset does not discriminate between publicand private sec or rural and
tor
urban groups.
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Soc ietycreates a massive defenc mec
e hanism to denythe signs and forc of c
es hange, leading to
a veryfixed national narrative. This narrative c bec
an ome so fixed and ego-c entricthat relations
with neighbouring countries often bec ome strained with the smallest of issues.
Complac ybrings ineptness where institutions slowlydec as c
enc ay orruption and patrimonialism,
the propensityto favour familyand friends, rise. All institutional activities are focused upon the sole
objec tive to support the existing power elite and protec them from domesticthreats.
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Motivation is low and servic levels in both government and the private sec is more akin to the
e tor
old Eastern European c ountries under communist rule, rather than the vibrant growth economies
around the world. Corruption bec omes embedded within the c ulture where even the y oung and
educ ated see it as the onlymeans to advanc in soc , and more alarmingly– not wrong[4].
e iety
Soc ietydisintegrates into the lowest moral and ethic form not unlike past soc
al ieties that kept
slaves, where in fac this still exists todayin a c
t ontemporaryform. Although altruism is often
espoused, in reality little if anyexists within soc .
, iety
In some c ases feudalism bec ame established in societies that easilyac epted authorityafter
c
colonial masters moved out. The new governments used feudalism as a means to both c ontrol and
reap benefits for themselves. Urbanization and industrialization should normallybring enough
impetuous to eradic the forms of feudalism that exist within a nations as the basis of order and
ate
organization.
Change brings pressure for transformation. Urban soc ietybegins to grow rapidly triggered bythe
,
muc higher wages offered for fac
h toryemploy ment than c be obtained in anyagric
an ultural
ac tivities. Initiallythis migration is selective with the y ounger educ ated seeking urban employ ment
but as demand for workers grows and stories about higher wages filter bac to the rural areas,
k
larger numbers of people migrate to the c ities.
Urban populations bec ome consumers and inc rease demand for all ty pes of food, ac ommodation,
c
c onsumer and durable goods. Theyalso partake in savings either voluntaryor through nationally
induc savings sc
ed hemes developed bygovernment through an emerging banking sy stem. The
educ ation system is enhanc from basicsy
ed stems distilling discipline to those that plac more
e
emphasis on c al and c
ritic reative thinking.
Growing urban development attrac new entrepreneurs whose values shift from traditional
ts
attitudes to those more in line with an urban environment of a newlydeveloping country(see figure
1.). Those with natural abilities are quic to emerge and the soc
k io-economicstructure of society
begins c hanging awayfrom its feudal base.
Theypic up new skills and c
k ompetenc from educ
ies ation and employment and learn as theygo
along in their new businesses.
Figure 1. The shifting values that urban societybrings to a developing economy.
However as a developing ec onomyexperienc rapidlyc
es hanging demographic this mayleave a
s,
deeplydivided agrarian soc ietyand newlyeduc ated urban soc . This c still be seen todayin
iety an
most South-East Asian c ountries whic have bec
h ome part of the sourc of politic problems in
e al
countries like Thailand[5].
Developing soc ietyhas some influenc on agrarian soc
e ietythrough urban residents remitting funds
bac to parents and families in their villages and returning to build new houses and buyc
k onsumer
goods. This starts to break down traditional values and bring envyinto village societies.
Although ec onomicgrowth is destroy traditional c
ing ulture and values, a whole range of new
opportunities begin to emerge with rural based urban c entres developing. These new towns
commerc iallyserve their respective hinterlands with goods, basiceduc ation and health services
provided bygovernment.
Newlydeveloped infrastruc ture, roads, railway c
s, ommunic ations, schools, and health centres help
provide the abilityof rural soc ietyto transform itself. This brings a whole new range of opportunities
to those that c see the opportunity have the resourc networks and skills to develop them.
an , es,
The economyis now developed into partitioned agric ultural, manufac turing and servic industries
e
with manynew opportunities c ontinuallydeveloping. The proc esses of rural-urban migration,
population growth in urban centres, and increasing educ ation, increased c onsumption and saving.
Rising entrepreneurship oc urred through inc
c reased opportunities, catalysing increased investment
and rapid economicgrowth. These phenomena are shown in the sc hematicin figure 2.
Figure 2. The path to rapid economicgrowth in a developing economy.
Rising populations c reate momentum, whic c h reate opportunities and begin to feed off eac other
h
creating a chain in the economyand expand as other opportunities bec ome exploited. Real estate
developments, need building c ontractors, whic need hardware suppliers, whic need hardware
h h
goods manufac turers, who need workers who are paid and spend moneyon food, ac ommodation,
c
and c onsumer goods. Sales operations are needed to sell the real estate and c redit facilities are
needed to enable people to buythe homes and properties.
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The development of a textile industryneeds suppliers, tool manufac turers and dy manufac
e turers,
and the development of the automobile industryneeds parts manufac turers, paint manufacturers,
steel suppliers, logistictransport providers, and automobile dealers.
All these interactions c reates and environment with a set of opportunities. This pattern of
development, growth, and c reation of opportunities, are in a perpetual motion. The inner c and
ity
suburban areas of c ities develop c ertain socio-economicc haracteristic in terms of the sets of
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needs and wants c onsumers have leading to its own set of interrelationships whic determines
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what c happen and what c
an annot happen.
There are pressures to adopt new more egalitarian business struc tures whic sometimes c
h hallenge
long existing orders. During the under-developed and earlydeveloping phases of ec onomic
development in manyc ountries, businesses have been c ontrolled byfamilies of government
officials and the militaryprotec byrestric
ted tive regulation and prac es that allow monopolies and
tic
oligopolyc ompetition.
Suc situations would be similar to those under the Suharto regime in Indonesia and the Marc
h os
regime in the Philippines, but also exists throughout Afric the Middle East and Latin Americ In
a, a.
some of the old Soviet Bloc c
k ountries, state c apitalism was replac bya small group of politic
ed ally
supported entrepreneurs in what c ould be c alled ‘oligarch capitalism’.
To a lesser in some c ountries like Malay c
sia ertain parts of industries are controlled byGovernment
Linked Companies (GLCs) under another version of state c apitalism. The effec of these business
t
structures is to restric opportunityand growth to small groups of people.
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One of the weapons the power elite use to prevent the above c hain reaction of events is to delayor
fail to build the necessaryinfrastruc ture to support this transformation. However c hanging
demographic c s reate trends that even the most powerful elite groups c annot hold bac often
k,
bringing great politic instability
al .
In these cases it maytake some form of shoc event like a politic upheaval or even revolution to
k al
change the situation where a more egalitarian business societyis c reated where more liberal
business environments exist[6].
These reforms usuallyc ome under pressure bythe people who have bec ome educ ated, having the
confidenc to rec
e ognize opportunities and had the opportunityto travel and see other countries
where the business environment is muc more open. Onc this c
h e hange in soc ietyoc urs the
c
economyc move onto the next stage of bec
an oming a developed ec onomy .
Figure 3. shows the transformation from a feudal to a more egalitarian business soc .
iety
Figure 3. The shift from a feudal to an egalitarian business soc .
iety
So what are the c onsequenc of feudalism? First of all feudalism c
es reates rigiditybased on
hierarc , power distanc c
hy e, ustom, c ulture, and soc expec
ial tations. This embeds staticprac es
tic
within a societythat leads to higher transac tion costs and thus inefficienc [7].
y
Anyc omparative advantage a nation mayhave c be veryquic lost through this rigidity These
an kly .
embedded informal rules, status rights, norms, and beliefs impede c hange, whic is needed in an
h
economythat is undergoing struc tural change and growth. This prevents a fac based ec
tor onomy
moving onto becoming and innovation based ec onomy .
Patrimonial prac es slowlylead to ec
tic onomicdec line, at least relative to other nations whic may
h
lead to politic instabilityand c
al hallenge of the status quo. This ec onomicdec is in c
ay ontrast to
other countries that are try to strengthen the rule of law and transparenc .
ing y
Manythird world governments venturing into state owned enterprises to assist in ec onomic
development are onlytransferring the ‘old values and practices’ into these new organizations whic h
are doomed to inefficienc from the start. State owned enterprises instead of opening up and
y
developing the ec onomyfurther take awayentrepreneurial opportunities from private c itizens and
thus instead of enhanc growth, just redistribute existing wealth to privileged groups[8].
ing
Business in the hands of suc a few within the ‘privileged class’ leads to other afflic
h tions like
groupthink that lead to consideration of few alternatives and poor decision making[9]. Other
prac es like c
tic losed tenders just enhanc un- c
e ompetitiveness and raise transac tion costs.
Today international markets require innovation, partic
’s ularlyin developing supplyand value
chains. Rigid management and rent seeking industrystruc tures based on a staticoutlook of
soc , partic
iety ularlywhere government polic has supported this status quo greatlyhinders the
y
abilityto be creative and compete internationally.
In the world todaythere are manyresourc ric c
e h ountries that survive on resourc based exports
e
whic is hiding the underly long term problems of the c
h ing ountry lac of c
’s k omparative advantage.
This prevents transformation, prevents the creation of c omparative advantage in anything, except
for resourc based monopolies and rent seeking ac
e tivities.
Even if drasticpolitic cal hange oc urs, the ac umulated wealth, networks, and c
c c apital, along with
the inefficient institutions left behind maintain a form of neo-feudalism that cannot be easilybroken
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up. The inertia and vested interests of what has gone on for manyy ears prevents dy namicchange.
As a consequenc muc of a c
e h ountry population is deprived of the right to pursue basic
’s
opportunities where theyare limited to a mic and SME nature.
ro
Ric hard Florida postulates that technology toleranc and talent are prerequisites to c
, e, reativityand
innovation, the basis that enables the transformation of an economy[10]. Feudalisticsoc ieties tend
to be poorlyendowed with tec hnologyand more importantlyare unable to learn to be innovative
from the infusion of new tec hnologies.
New tec hnologies are most often applied blindlywithout adaptation to spec c
ific onditions within the
rec eiving country As manyfeudal soc
. ieties are based on some form of dogma, toleranc fore
alternative views is not usuallyac eptable and thus original thinking and c
c reativityis greatly
hindered.
To this we must add market openness to enable the other fac tors to flourish. Otherwise an exodus
of talent from the countryor ‘brain-drain’ mayoc ur when there are anymissing elements
c
desc ribed above.
Anyc ountrythat seeks to find its plac of prosperous contentment within the world must transform
e
from a feudalscape to an innoscape. The c apital ac umulation c c must be made to work in a
c y le
waythat c reates real value.
This ec onomicmodel must c omprise of equitable market regulation, strong c orporate governance,
sound philosophies of risk alloc ation, undertake banking reform, enable fair, equitable, and
responsible market regulation, c reate prudent fisc and monetarypolic , and most importantlyof
al y
all eliminate the abilityof the people to use spec ulation as a sourc of wealth.
e
As a final point in this discussion, the equalityof opportunityis a basichuman right. People maynot
be poor bec ause theyhave been left behind the rest of the world, as the Sac hy
hs pothesis would
make us believe[11]. Theymaybe poor bec ause of the soc and ec
ial onomicstructures theylive
within. Feudalism is like a fenc that keeps people awayfrom the lush pastures of opportunity
e .
Therefore it is disappointing that the Millennium Development Goals did not more explic target
itly
feudalism as a c ause and preserver of povertyand devise spec strategies to eradic it.
ific ate
Manymeetings on development around the world have repeatedlyec hoed this to little avail[12].
The risk is that the elements of feudalism that exist around the world will be largelyignored as they
are too politicallydiffic to tac
ult kle. The Millennium Development Goals mayjust tac the kle
symptoms rather than the ac tual structural causes of poverty.
Prof. Murray Hunter, University Malay Perlis
sia
Endnotes
[1] http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/07/25/3553156.htm
[2] Brown, E., A., R., (1974), The Tyrannyof a construc Feudalism and Historians of Medieval
t:
Europe, American Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 4., pp. 1063-1068.
[3] Ac ording to Franc Fukuy
c is ama’s hy pothesis, lac of the rule of law and ac ountabilityallows a
k c
government to bec ome easilydespotic Fukuy
. ama, F., (2012), The Origins of Political order: From
Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
[4] See: Unknown, Corruption surveyrevealing, The Star Online, Tuesday3rd July2012,
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/7/3/focus/11592606&sec=focus
[5] See: Profile: Thailand’s reds and y ellows, BBC News, 20th April 2010,
http://news.bbc o.uk/2/hi/asia-pac /8004306.stm, ac essed 20th April, 2010).
.c ific c
[6] However even in some c ases this does not c hange even after a revolution, i.e., the fall of the
Soviet Union just replac state c
ed apitalism with ‘oligarc c
h apitalism’, the peoples revolution against
Marc did not dispose of ‘c
os ronyc apitalism’, and the revolutions in Latin Americ during the 1960s
a
and 1970s did not c hange the situation muc Egy Liby and Tunisia are still in the balanc
h. pt, a, e.
[7] Williamson, O., E., (1999), The Mechanisms of Governance, New York & Oxford, Oxford
UniversityPress.
[8] See the current debate on this issue in Malay at http://malay
sia sia-
today .net/mtcolumns/newsc ommentaries/50917-pkr-wants-rc i-on-george-kent-saga
[9] Hunter, M., (2012), Opportunity, Strategy, & Entrepreneurship: A Meta-theory, Vol. 1, New York,
Nova Sc ientificPublishers, pp. 305-308.
[10] Florida, R. (2012), The Rise of the Creative Class – Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition –
revised and Expanded, New York, BasicBooks.
[11] Sac J., (2005), The End of Poverty: How we can make it happen in our lifetime, London,
hs,
Penguin.
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