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The Perfect Storm: Economics, Finance and Socio-Ecology
Ian Johnson
Our world is headed into a Perfect Storm of an interconnected financial, ecological and social crisis. Almost all forward-looking assessments demonstrate that business as usual and incremental improvements will not be sufficient to take us to a future world blessed by equitable prosperity, safety, security and contentment... Read More
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Towards a Global Democratic Revolution
Andreas Bummel
Those who are engaged in building democracy in their countries and who are animated with a fresh spirit like in Egypt will have to ask themselves: What purpose does building a democratic nation have if it is embedded into an undemocratic and non-transparent international system? In a globalized world the... Read More
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Science and Economics: The Case of Uncertainty & Disequilibrium
Orio Giarini
Economic thinking is still very largely related to traditional Cartesian (and Newtonian) concepts of science. The notion of equilibrium is not really a concept or an explanation, but rather a tautology, which has been given the value or status of an axiom. Understanding this notion of equilibrium, where supply is equal to… Read More
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Revolution in Human Affairs: The Root of Societal Violence
Jasjit Singh
The greatest global challenge that faces the international community today is that of the current trans-national revolution in human affairs, which in turn is triggered by the combination of three revolutions: a revolution of rising expectations, the information and communications revolution, and a broader...
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Capital Needs Labour
Patrick Liedtke
The role of labour is crucial for the social cohesion and stability it provides. Threats to financial stability do not exclusively emanate out of capital markets. As the unrest in several Arab countries demonstrate yet again, without social stability there can be no financial stability...
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Global Prospects for Full Employment
Garry Jacobs & Ivo Šlaus
A human-centered theory of economy and employment needs to be founded on the realization that human beings – not impersonal principles, market mechanisms, money or technology – are the driving force and central determinants of economic development... Read More
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Human Rights, Liberty & Socio-Economic Justice
Winston P. Nagan
According to Roosevelt, “necessitous men are not free.” The narrow conception of individual freedom founded on prisvate property rights advocated by neoliberalism neglects a much wider, more humane conception of social democracy, freedom from want and human security affirmed by the New Deal, the Atlantic Charter and the UN Charter... Read More
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Biopolicy- Building a Green Society
Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis
Decisions on our common future should no longer rest solely on world leaders, who can evade or even obstruct meaningful change. A simultaneous electronic ballot on saving bios is a brilliant opportunity to demonstrate that, as citizens of the world, we can all agree on safeguarding the Earth for the generations to come. By giving priority to individual... Read More
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Universal Nuclear Disarmament
Manpreet Sethi
From the time that the weapon was first used in 1945, and once the horrendous destruction that it could cause was understood, countries have struggled with the challenge of how to put the genie back into the bottle. To little avail. Nuclear abolition... Read More
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Grossly Distorted Picture: GDP Still Misleading
Hazel Henderson
A new global poll across 12 countries reveals that more than two-thirds of people polled think that economic statistics like GDP are an inadequate way of measuring national progress...
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Report on Activities of WAAS and Club of Rome
Employment is one of the crucial problems of the contemporary world. The World Academy’s Global Employment Challenge Project (launched in 2009 and on-going) and the Club of Rome’s International Conference on Concerted Strategies for International Development in the 21st Century, Bern, November 17-18, 2010 have... Read More
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
CAPS-WAAS Workshop, New Delhi, February 7-8, 2011
Nuclear weapons present a problem of immense complexity involving a multiplicity of actors, both nuclear and non-nuclear weapon states as well as non-state actors, with differing perceptions and security threats and compounded by the growing importance of nuclear energy and technological advances in ... Read More
Revolution in Human Affairs
CAPS-WAAS Workshop, New Delhi, February 9, 2011
While administering relief and development aid in the Far East during the early 1950s, former WAAS President and Club of Rome member Harlan Cleveland coined a new phrase to describe a striking phenomenon which he perceived would have profound impact on the future course of democracy and human development... Read More
Human Capital & Sustainability
Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs
This article examines the linkages between population, economic development, employment, education, health, social equity, cultural values, energy intensity and sustainability in the context of evolving human consciousness. Education is the primary lever. Human choice matters… Read More
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