World economy has always been controlled by world powers represented by leaders of these countries. That I believe is what Ms. Sarthouris referred to as the "brain", the masterminds. The world powers dictate where and how to create the law of supply and demand of money by goods and trade; so the rest of the little parts of the "body" which are countries with no strategic alliances with world powers may not benefit from the "nutrients" shown in the value of currency exchange and presence of their goods in these powerful countries.

Using the metaphor of the good lady author, let me say that a brain-dead body cannot be pronounced clinically dead if the heart is still functioning. Hence, this is what we can refer to as comatose economy for some countries dependent on economic "aid and respirator" in debts -- paid in many years through legislated taxation by companies and individual taxpayers for a country to operate and survive the world economy.   Read more...

Unfortunately, "the world economy" is not based on living systems, albeit, it was surely given much impetus by Darwinism (and Spencers' handy coining of "the survival of the fittest"). In fact, the Ivy League schools, funded by the railroad magnates & their kin, embraced Darwinism enthusiastically as the scientific rationale for their machinations.   Read more...