"The Way of the Gospel in the World of Java, a history of Muria Javanese Mennonite Church (GITJ), provides an account of the evangelization of the people of the Muria area carried out by both missionaries of the Dutch Mennonite Mission as well as by indigenous Javanese evangelists. The European missionaries operated out of a western frame of reference while the indigenous Javanese evangelists interpreted the Gospel from the context of their own culture. In the course of its long history, the developing congregations and agricultural communities around the Muria became a unified Christian movement called Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa (The Way of the Gospel in the World of Java). In English the church today is usually called the Muria Javanese Mennonite Church." -- Back cover

A brilliant book, diving into the shift from our focus on business (before WWII) to finance (post WWII), the difference between the two, and our need to reorient back to a focus on business (not what happens at Wall Street, but what happens on Main Street). Foroohar takes the common disparagement 'Makers and Takers' (a conservative epithet in common parlance: the first is usually framed as individuals who work, while the second are the 'welfare queens') and turns it on its head: in her opinion, makers are the persons (on 'Main Street') who are actually, tangibly producing goods and services. Takers are those who do not produce anything tangible or functionally useable - the mavens of Wall Street and the finance industry who only trade. Foroohar shows historically how this shift happened, with a transformation of (mainly American, but eventually global) university business schools/departments and a shift of focus away from production to financial trading. She also helpfully illustrates how certain common procedures are harmful to the global economy; a primary example is the practice of shareholder buy-backs, wherein shares of a company are repurchased by a company in order to goose share price, artificially driving the value of a company higher. A very good read: well documented and clear. I highly recommend it.