[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

I don't know about everyone else, but I am thoroughly enjoying the
discussion and I thank all those taking part - I've certainly learnt a
thing or two and put a few new authors in my future reading list. Best
part of it all, I recognise that some people have taken some serious
amount of time to explain their position, and I really respect that,
especially since this kind of teaching is free! :-)

Now I do have one comment to answer a question that Milton asked a few
days ago. I am unable to develop it as eloquently as others, yet I'd
like to throw it in the arena:

Le 24/02/2010 20:26, Milton L Mueller a écrit :
> And tell me how dividing up the world into "governments" (an institutionalized collectivity with guns) "business" (corporate entities based on trade/markets) and "civil society" (which overlaps with both previous categories and has no homogeneity of interest and no guns and no money other than what the first two give it) makes any sense. 
>   

I usually equate:

- governments: law and order
- business: economy and money
- civil society: conscience

Any social ecosystem requires all three to work. Take one out and either
the system will fail, tear itself apart, or reach an untenable extreme.
That's why I believe in multi-stakeholderism.

Kind regards,

Olivier

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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