The Pros And Cons Of The Major Models Of Governance

Authoritarianism Authoritarianism can be broadly defined as a political system in which a specific set of unelected officials possess the authority of the state. Authoritarian systems are different from totalitarian ones, as they allow various degrees of individual...

The Synthesis Of Quantity And Quality

The new economy will also need to balance quantity and quality (as we will see below, this is not a trivial issue – it matters for some fundamental aspects of social life). The old way of thinking maintains that, generally speaking, quality reduces quantity and vice...

The Synthesis Of Competition And Cooperation

Supported by a somewhat misguided understanding of natural evolution, the western world (if not the whole world) has been indoctrinated with the belief that competition matters more than cooperation. And yet cooperation seems to be at least as important, not only in...

The Synthesis Of Consumerism And Needs

There is no doubt that consumerism (mass production and mass consumption) played an important role in improving living standards for many people, but it has now outgrown its usefulness. Accelerated consumerism has actually become destructive in many ways. It has...

The Synthesis Of Investment And Production

The Dutch anthropologist and writer Joris Luyendijk is right to point out that if we insist on seeing financiers simply as villains, we miss an essential point: We like the idea of financiers as parasites and as psychopaths but it is more unsettling than that… the...