Just in time: a design for equality

George Lakey writes about the background to his new book

'The good news is that a large-scale design for equality has been invented in the last hundred years – what economists call "the Nordic model"' | Photo: Anita / flickr CC.

When political and economic change whirls around us, I like to remember that the Religious Society of Friends began in such a moment. Then, as now, accepted arrangements were passionately challenged and division was everywhere. Actually, Friends were doing some of the dividing and challenging – Mary Fisher even walked to Rome to convert the pope!

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