THE NEXT FEW YEARS WILL BE CRUCIAL Social media The global evidence is in: social media platforms based on advertising and profit-maximizing have clearly morphed into monsters threatening all societies and democratic human values, as I described in Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age. From inciting riots in India and Myanmar, abetting terrorism, extremism, violence and …
©2020 The US 2020 election illustrated once again that independent voters are tired of the two-party red or blue duopoly. Like European voters they are beyond left and right and ahead with new visions of the future. Old memes and battles between capitalism and socialism ended in the past Cold War. Markets survive and are …
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©2020 Today the money meme rules our lives and social interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? I studied all the economics textbooks of every perspective from the Austrian “laissez-faire” market fundamentalists to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, (1776) and his earlier Theory of Moral Sentiments, (1759), as well as Karl Marx, …
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Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? Economists analyze money-based markets. Trading is innate in human behavior. Karl Polanyi describes how indigenous peoples in the South Pacific traded shells in …
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©2020 We humans have evolved a new form of governance beyond our machine age democracies: toward radical still unruly participatory mediocracies in our Information Age, as I first described in 1964 and in “Mediocracies and Their Attention Economies“. The early promise of television foreseen by Canadian Marshall McLuhan in, “Understanding Media” (1964) was in the birth …
Published by Wall Street International Magazine Mining the Earth We humans, having populated every part of Earth’s surface and visited the Moon, now are perched atop the planet’s food chain. We are learning from this perilous position but hastening the extinction of all other species in our shared, life-supporting biosphere. The planet is now teaching …
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“China the Bubble That Never Pops” by Thomas Orlik, Oxford University Press (2020) “The Future of Humanity: Global Civilization and China’s Rejuvenation” by Zhouying JIN, Intellect Ltd (2019) ©2020 Author of “China: The Bubble That Never Pops” (2020), Thomas Orlik, as Bloomberg’s Chief Asia Economist spent 11 years in China. This book is a breath of …
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©2020 The simmering debate has now exploded about whether GDP the ubiquitous index, is a correct measure of overall progress, but still used by governments, financial markets, mass media, companies, and everyone else. Our Ethical Markets global ”Beyond GDP“ surveys with GlobeScan conducted since 2007, still find an average 72% favor expanding GDP to include statistics on …
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2020 ©2020 “Author David Shimer exhaustive research into all the implications of Russia’s covert influences on the American electorate makes “Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference” a must reading! Especially, now, prior to the US November elections! Shimer has great credentials, having studied under Professor …
©2020 As we move into the second half of our twenty-first century, we can finally make sense of the origin and impact of the coronavirus that struck the world back in 2020 from an evolutionary systemic perspective. Today, in 2050, looking back on the past 40 turbulent years on our home planet, it seems obvious that …
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