Sachs: The Price of Civilization

What I am currently reading is The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs.

This financial crisis and the failure to address it effectively is the natural outcome for a society that embraced the golden calf of selfishness and greed,  the will to power, and anything goes in the pursuit of wealth, with its roots in the 1980's at least.   As we have seen throughout history and in our own experience