"The anti-consumer brigade thinks there is a fairer, more rational, alternative to capitalism just round the corner. There isn't."

Excellent article in the Times by Daniel Finkelstein, apart from the last paragraph in which he casually dismisses unregulated Capitalism.

However, apart from that, Finkelstein gets it spot on when he writes:

"[The G20 protesters] should start...with an acceptance that in the long violent saga of mankind we have rarely done anything as benign as going shopping, rarely devised anything as socially advantageous as property rights and the rule of law, rarely enriched the poor or enhanced lives as we did by creating capitalism."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...