The author, Michael Jaffey, is a multi-disciplinary, who graduated as an engineer, and then, as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar, read philosophy, politics, and economics, which changed his world view. He then worked successively as an engineer, systems analyst, energy policy analyst, and national accounts statistician. He has long believed that inside our sick society is a good society, struggling to get out, and that we must help it, and without delay. Sometimes a multi-disciplinary is needed. Georges Clemenceau, France's World War One leader, famously said: 'War is to serious matter to be left to t...