WHEN that great chronicler of Victorian life Charles Dickens described 19th-century England it was as a country divided by wealth and status. The free market was king and trade was soaring, thanks to a new communications network: the railway. The few “haves” made a fabulous living from the toil of the millions of “have-nots”.
Now fast-forward 150 years and think globally. Today, the free market is king and trade is booming on the back of our new telecommunications networks. The haves live it up, mostly, though not exclusively, in developed countries, while the majority of people in the developing world…
