Todays post is entitled “The rise and rise of consumer culture, and it’s relationship to the Swedish economy”, or alternatively, “I like shopping in IKEA” Depending on where you get your information there are a few contenders for the title of worlds richest man (or woman). According to one source that I have just read, Ingvar Kamprad has just become the worlds richest man (again). For a long while there Mr Gates had looked unasailable, but this spirited Swede appears to have done it. I feel…