"Who," she asked, "will do the science of this millennium?" Several private groups, including the Council on Competitiveness, an organization in Washington that seeks policies to promote industrial vigor, have begun to agitate for wide debate and action.
In 2003, an upstate New York hospital, seeking policy guidance, put the question to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the administration.
Senator Marco Rubio, of Florida, sought policy advice from several reformocons, including Yuval Levin, who, as editor of the quarterly National Affairs, is the group's foremost intellectual.
For a decade, while grievances mounted between Russia and Georgia, the Georgian government has sought policy changes from Russia in exchange for its approval.
But it was like many other parties and receptions given by those with policy interests (and money) and those seeking policy advice (and money).
The G20 ministers were seeking policy solutions amid growing concern about the headwinds facing the global economy, principally concerns about growth in China and the US.
Instead, they hope debtors will organize themselves into a group powerful enough to seek policy changes on their own, as unions did in the early twentieth century, and as civil-rights activists did in the nineteen-sixties.
Neil Bentley, deputy director general of the CBI, which is urging the government to end its feud over energy policy and back the green economy, said: "We are seeking policy clarity like everybody else.
In this sense, any such upheaval – whatever form it takes – will prove "revolutionary" by seeking policy shifts of such magnitude as to challenge the survival of incumbent governments or force them to enact measures with transformative implications.
