First its worth knowing he also believed:

Economics/Entrepreneurship needs to be understood in schools as basic to leading a productive life as reading , writing , arithmetic

That Keynes warning “increasingly only economics rules the world’ made the Hippocratic oath of economists: ensuring economics is ruled the way round that sustains future generations and communities not the way round that disinvests in them. Ironically the more leaders Norman wrote in The Economist between 1949-1988, the more a species of macroeconomists spawned hired to construct models paid for the big gets bigger-see Andrew Neil's testimony to Hayek in the inaugural issue of Journal of Social Business; feel the irony of journalising for the newspaper conceived in 1843 by fellow Scot James Wilson as the industrial revolution's way ahead {  cross-examining leaders publicly before they made big decisions impacting whole lifetimes of many in a nation or an indusrry sector or indeed the world Britannia ruled. James questioning resulted in half of the UK\'s parliament being booted out as vested interest lobbyists and his son-in-law as second editor took on the job of coaching queen victoria's court to transform from ruling slavemaking empire to moderating commonwealth. (Walter Bagehot : The English Constitution - one of the greatest change economics stories we can rely on as the 2010s inspires the joy of economics.)  

To try to better understand Norman’s worldwide challenge of how to prevent globalisation from embedding a financial system (and other parallel systems eg energy) that ended in meltdown; in the left hand column we will invite Q&A’s on  this issue, in the right hand column we will chronicle some of the peculiar places of 20^th century world that only Norman combinatorially journalised