HOW many investors of conscience around the world see the suffering of former senator Leila de Lima in the hands of the justice system of her own country and are turned off mightily by the gross miscarriage of justice? Then swear not to invest in the country, then ask colleagues in the investing community to do the same, in solidarity with the detained former senator?

That will take a long time for us to know. No one has ever done a study on such causality. Most economic-oriented think tanks here are either flack for their rich principals and funders or free market zealots pushing for the usual deregulation and privatization and shrinking of the government.

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