Jeffrey Sachs, in The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall (Bodley Head, £20), leads the field among those calling for a nicer global capitalism.
Nice start: global roaming rates suck: tell me about it!
Sandeep Sharma is managing director of South Asia and Middle East Operations for NICE, a global data analytics firm helping organizations improve their business performance, increase their operational efficiency, and prevent financial crime.
Instead, short-termism and a lack of vision has major airlines and their lobbyists working against consensus-building at ICAO while mouthing platitudes about how nice a global deal would be.
Taken together, these factors mean that Russia's cheap shares could be positioned for a nice rebound if global risk appetite recovers a bit.
It's a nice thought, this global sisterhood, but I don't think it's quite as emotional as all that.
If I can do that, it would make me so happy") and revealed the extent of his expertise on Arab diplomacy ("The king of Jordan seems like a nice man") and global warming ("which a lot of people think is a hoax").
It was a strange twist of events that New Zealand, who generally views itself as the wool-lined nice guy of global affairs, turned out the most sadistic contest panel judges.
It means, rather, that whatever we do must begin with the world in which we actually live, and that is an ugly world of backroom political horse-trading, not nice-sounding, unenforceable global treaties.
