How is it that with so much wealth, so many people are so desperate? So unhappy? So stressed and strapped for time? Vanishing jobs, benefits, and retirement don’t help. Where’s the progress in that? How do we compete more aggressively? By paying people a dollar a day? Or by producing and consuming even more stuff? Just what is “the economy”? What’s it for? Is it working for us, or are we working for it? can it work better? We’d better hope so. We’d better make it so.