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OPINION:Enlightened self interest, moral imagination and social responsibility can help economic recovery, writes ELAINE BYRNE

‘PANDORA TRIED to clap the lid on the box again, but it was too late. The happy childhood of mankind had gone forever, and with it the Golden Age when life was easy . . . Only one good thing came to man in the box and remains to comfort him in his distress, and that is the spirit of Hope.”