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Nature 420, 123 (14 November 2002) | doi:10.1038/420123a

Open Innovation Challenges

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Living with capitalism

Crispin Tickell1

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Similar processes affect cells and businesses. But what price sustainability?

Not for the first time, Fritjof Capra makes a broad sweep of human knowledge and experience, ranging here from a definition of life (or rather the "defining characteristics of living systems") to global capitalism as we now know it. It is an exciting journey by way of biology, sociology, market economics and ecology, and arrives at conclusions that call for radical change in human society.