Theory of Evolution

摘要

IN THE PAST decade, the face of the world has changed in many ways—from how we purchase and consume products to how we've become more intertwined, and perhaps even entangled, through global communication and financial systems. Our perception of big business has also changed after seeing how banks and investment firms overindulged in high-risk moneymaking schemes and contributed to the recent economic calamity. But one of the biggest surprises of the recent recession, especially in the United States, has been that hyper consumerism is not a sustainable economic paradigm. In years past, it would have been cited as the reason for tremendous prosperity.