"Peter Drucker, the doyen of the management community, claims that 90 percent of all financial transactions in the world have no relationship with either production or trade [of tangible goods and services]. Drucker refers to this as the growth of the symbol economy" (see Peter Drucker, The New Realities, London, 1989, p. 121; cited by Ankie Hoogvelt, "Globalisation, Exclusion and the Politics of Resistance (1997), at: http://wwww.vuw.ac.nz/atp/articles/hoogvelt_9704.html).
Jurriaan
