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The post industrial economic system is offering to release human beings from economic bondage. Will society allow this, and turn towards the next evolutionary development?

An outmoded belief system makes our success story into a threat to the survival of twenty-first century civilization. The world looks as though it were worse off at the start of the new century

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A brief extract to introduce an integrative group model developed by Stafford Beer et al. (Extract from World In Torment p13)




Please consider a group of five friends. No one is in charge of them. They have various interests in common, which is why they are friends. They talk about their interests - round the fire, walking in the park, over coffee, in the pub... If they discuss… Continue

...Developing the political
economy of the emerging
post-capitalist world...



A salient work... is Ethical Economy… Continue

It is simple.

We have to earn a living like any other species. The way we do that is called an economy. But economic practices are influenced by the social science we know as economics. Unfortunately, today's economic reality is distorted by faulty and out-of-date theories emanating from economics as a thought process.



Economic theorists tell us, individuals, that we need jobs.
Well, reality tells us that we need an income more fundamentally… Continue