Former finance minister Bokros who made his name famous with austerity measueres strated to write articles on solidarity, particularly in relation to the pension system. He is a freedom fighter of the elites in the fashion of Hayek.

Tribal logic based on national, ethnic or religious bias always leads to inhuman and violent attitudes, in the Middle East and in other conflict. The starting point for any left-wing opinion is to distinguish between the opressors and the eopressed.

According to the dominant view of our times, economic growth is the end and educated, healthy human is the means. Amartya Sen changed the direction within this realation and made growth the means and the healthy human the end. This should be corner stone of a new health care paradigm.

In Romania, the widespread description goes that there is no anti-Semitism, while there are anti-Semits. Commonplaces and popular judgments about Jews and other aliens remind us the traditional anti-Semitic ideology. Nevertheless, contemporary anti-Semitism is shy: it knows that after the Holocaust, open anti-Semitism is not acceptable.

The recent months show how the various global issues fall into boxes and receive uneven attention. The cinicism of the summits indicates how the hierarchies of knowledge contribute to the maintanance of the divisions of the world.