Economic justice: Should Quakers speak out about banking?

Gill Westcott looks at what Quakers can offer that is distinctive

by Gill Westcott 15th June 2012

The features that made the international financial system a source of enormous instability for the real economy have, since the crisis of 2008/9, remained substantially unchanged. Of course, human wickedness has been pilloried; but it is the features of the system as a whole that make bubbles, crashes, currency speculation and the like inevitable.