How important is global governance? Is there a growing need? If so, as many argue, is progress being made relative to the need? Who is saying what? Are there important trends in thinking? And patterns ... Read more
The clearing house should encourage thinking ahead so that law and governance can attempt to accommodate the numerous challenges of globalization, many new technologies, and the emerging ....Read more
It took 30 years from when the current success measure of GDP was invented in the 1930s to regular use for policy guidance in the 1960s; we now need to institute “monthly measures of national well-being ... Read more
It is time for “genuine global action” that integrates the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development ... Read more
Efficient allocation of money to maximize returns on that money is not the central purpose of either money or economy… To scientifically make a case against speculation would itself ... Read more
The economics of the industrial era and the 20th century is not appropriate to the 21st century service economies, where human capital and natural capital are ... Read more
The potential for greater individual initiative (is) key to solving the mounting global challenges over the next 15-20 years ... Read more
Diversity is often a strength, but too many fragmented approaches to promoting sustainability may weaken progress in realizing this necessary and desirable transition ... Read more
What is lacking is a bedrock of common values to create a shared ambition for civilization ... Read more
There is virtually no futures education in schools and colleges. Far better education about Global Challenges is greatly needed ... Read more
The Academy will continue calling for a human-centered paradigm shift that is required to confront man-made complexities, hazards and the fragile landscape affecting almost two billion people globally ... Read more
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Law in Transition Biblioessay: Globalization, Human Rights, Environment, Technology
Michael Marien
As globalization continues, many transformations in international and domestic laws are underway or called for. There are too many laws and too few, too much law that is inadequate or obsolete, and too much law-breaking. This biblioessay covers some 100 recent books, nearly all recently published, arranged in four categories ... Read More
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Taming Global Governance Idea Chaos: A "Frontier Frame" for Recent Books
Michael Marien
Global governance is clearly taking shape in complex and chaotic ways, with widespread dissatisfaction of present arrangements and numerous proposals for betterment-all at a time when many national governments are also being questioned, arguably due, at least in part, to deficiencies in global governance and international accords ... 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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Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
Michael Marien
The fifth quadrennial installment of the NIC series “aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future…by identifying critical trends and potential discontinuities,” described as “megatrends” (factors that will likely occur under any scenario) and “game-changers” (critical variables whose trajectories are far less certain) ... Read More
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World Energy Outlook
Michael Marien
The quantity and quality of energy supply are central to our future. This annual report is, by far, the most extensive and authoritative survey of energy trends, which are projected to 2020 and 2035. Much press attention, at least in the US, has been given to the startling forecast that the US will become ... Read More
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Book review -2052: A Global Forecast for the next forty years
Michael Marien
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years is a report to the CoR commemorating the 40th anniversary of The Limits to Growth, written by one of the four original authors. This broad forecast is an informed guess tracing the big lines ... Read More
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New and Appropriate Economics for the 21st Century
Michael Marien
“Economics” is an important construct, having to do with the production and distribution of wealth, human well-being and welfare. Despite disclaimers, it is inexorably tied to ideology and values—political ideas about the good society and how to promote it. Some economists describe their efforts as “scientific,” but this is merely a strategy to legitimate their work and their assumptions ... Read More
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Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link
Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs
This report by WAAS Fellow Bernard Lietaer and his associates addresses important theoretical and practical issues regarding modern monetary systems. The central thesis of the report is that effective monetary systems must optimize performance on two complementary goals ... Read More
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Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing
Michael Marien
This report is the latest UN vision of what must be done for a sustainable planet—essentially an update of the 1987 Brundtland report — featuring 56 proposals to empower people, to promote a sustainable economy, and to strengthen governance ... Read More
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Towards a Green Growth
Michael Marien
This important report is not well-known, unfortunately, and not for summer reading on the beach. But as a sensible, well-documented, and broad-ranging way forward for all nations, addressing many critical problems in one package, there is nothing like it! ... Read More
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Aux Origines de l’Occident: Machines, Bourgeoisie et Capitalism
- Augusto Forti
Information theory and Evolution
- John Avery
The Real Wealth of Nations
- Riane Eisler
Gentle action
- David Peat
World Federalist Manifesto
- Francesco Stipo
Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy Through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity. Report to the Club of Rome
- Ernst von Weizsäcker et al.
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