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Our Common Enemies & Our Best Friends
Editorial
The re-emergence of dangerous East-West tensions, atrocities in the Middle East, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), bloodshed in Ukraine, traumas inflicted on many children by war and violence, massive war in Europe becoming imaginable for the first time since the end of the ... Read More
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Unification in the Social Sciences: Search for a Science of Society
Garry Jacobs, Winston Nagan & Alberto Zucconi
The social sciences have contributed significantly to humanity’s remarkable progress over the past two centuries, but the multidimensional crises confronting the world today reflect the need to rapidly move beyond ... Read More
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Anticipation: A New Thread for the Human and Social Sciences?
Roberto Poli
Anticipation is increasingly at the heart of urgent contemporary debates, from climate change to economic crisis. As societies are less confident that tradition will provide an effective guide to the future, anticipatory practices .... Read More
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Society and Social Power
Janani Harish
Society is the source of immense power. Over the past few centuries humanity has recorded phenomenal growth in its collective capacity for accomplishment, as reflected in the 12-fold growth in global per capita income since 1800. The remarkable achievements in living standards, longevity, science, technology, industry, education, democracy ... Read More
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The Conscious Individual
Ashok Natarajan
This article traces the evolutionary development of human consciousness and its increasingly complex and sophisticated organization as human personality from the instinctive behavior of the animal and the subconscious conformity characteristic ... Read More
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Fictitious Capital and the Elusive Quest in Understanding its Implications: Illusions and Paradoxes
Joanílio 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
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Replacing the Concept of Externalities to Analyze Constraints on Global Economic Growth and Move Toward a New Economic Paradigm
Jim Lunday
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
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European Transition into a Socio-ecological Market Economy
Erich Hoedl
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
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New Paradigm in the Service Economy The Search of Economics for Scientific Credibility: In between Hard and Soft Sciences
Orio Giarini
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
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A World Parliament and the Transition from International Law to World Law
Andreas Bummel
World civilization depends on the provision of global public goods such as tackling climate change, ensuring international financial stability or peace and security. Yet, the intergovernmental system of global governance is not capable ... Read More
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The Double Helix of Learning and Work: Chapter 3 – I Work, Therefore I Am
Orio Giarini & Mircea Malitza
The Double Helix of Learning and Work by Orio Giarini and Mircea Malitza is a report to the Club of Rome first published by UNESCO in 2003. It advances fundamental paradigm-changing ideas in the field of education ... Read More
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Can we still comply with the maximum limit of 2°C? Approaches to a New Climate Contract
F. J. Radermacher
The international climate policy is in trouble. CO2 emissions are rising instead of shrinking. The 2025 climate summit in Paris should lead to a global agreement, but what should be its design? ... Read More
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The Future of the Atlantic and the Role of Africa in International Development
Francesco Stipo et al.
The 2014 USACOR report forecasts that economic cooperation across the Atlantic will increase through the implementation of free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the development ... Read More
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BOOK REVIEW Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch by Yehezkel Dror
Michael Marien
Hundreds of books have been written about leadership, mostly about business leaders. But few if any, place the tasks of leadership in the context of our rapidly changing times and the growing need for some better form of global governance ... Read More
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