Fictitious capital has the tendency to create, like a spell, money that becomes more money, richness which prompts more richness in an uncontrolled spiral ... Read more
Disciplinary and conceptual boundaries don't just focus attention; they also inhibit the discovery and study of processes that transcend those boundaries and bias public policy development in certain directions ... Read more
Transition into an SEME (Socio-ecological Market Economy) needs a conscious societal evolution and full development of the human potentials for active learning and knowledge transfer ... Read more
JoanÃlio Rodolpho Teixeira & Paula Felix Ferreira
This paper deals with the interaction between fictitious capital and the neoliberal model of growth and distribution, inspired by the classical economic tradition. Our renewed interest in this literature ... Read More
The prevailing economic paradigm has fallen short as a guide to policy making in this era of global economic crises. Numerous efforts are underway to revise it or replace it with a science of society that integrates ... Read More
The European Union has introduced the Europe 2020 Strategy and Horizon 2020, which contain several elements for a transition into a Socio-ecological Market Economy. But their implementations .... Read More
After the very long cycle (about 10,000 years) of societal and economic development based on agriculture, followed by a short cycle in which the industrial revolution became the prime mover (for less than 3 centuries), the world has entered ... Read More
