With the eminent collapse of our economy, it's becoming more and more evident that we need to learn some lessons that will guide us as we go forward.  Now, one of my worries is that many of us will learn the wrong lessons - specifically as it relates to risk-aversion, fear of creativity and innovation and the rise of our ever-present internal beast, known as individualism.  

Andrew Oswald, a professor of economics at the University of Warwick, has a more poetic way of making the same point.