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Volume 1 Issue 5 - October 2012

In Search of a New Paradigm for Global Development
The Demographic Revolution: Reconceptualizing Macroeconomics
Networks: Innovation, growth and sustainable development
Human Centered Development Perspective
The Right to Development
Building a Caring Economy and Society
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Recognizing Unrecognized Genius

Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs

Today, there is an urgent need to reconnect disparate fields of thought in the social sciences - economics, politics, society and psychology. Unification of the social sciences and humanities can generate precious insights into the social process, such as the study of social evolution in literature ... Read More

Counter-Aging in the Post-Industrial Society

Orio Giarini

The lengthening of life cycle is a unique revolutionary phenomenon that will have a profound impact on contemporary and future societies. It will affect social, political and economic institutions to a far greater and deeper measure than is commonly perceived ... Read More

Seeding Intrinsic Values

Polly Higgins

Currently, our world is predominantly driven by laws that put profit first. So how do we shift to a new way of being that prioritises intrinsic values? How do we shift away from valuing something for its price-tag to valuing something in and of itself, regardless of whether or not it has a pecuniary value? ... Read More

Crises and Opportunities

Ian Johnson & Garry Jacobs

Piecemeal fragmented strategies cannot address the pressing challenges facing humanity today. Economic theory has to be radically reinvented to squarely face the reality of rising unemployment, widening inequalities, growing ecological threats, frustrated social aspirations and unmet human needs. Monetary and fiscal policies are too crude ... Read More

Double Factor Ten

F.J. Radermacher

The paper discusses the need and chances for considerable growth for a balanced world with ten billion people. This can be achieved in the context of sustainable development, if the right global governance system is implemented: Eco-social instead market-radical ... Read More

Rio +20

Robert Horn

In June 2012, 50,000 people representing institutions of the earth (governments, NGOs, businesses) met to celebrate the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. They were limited by their assumptions in what they could deliver, but what they accomplished was often not reported by the mainstream media ... Read More

The Future of the Arctic

Francesco Stipo et al

The United States Association for the Club of Rome released its Report 2012 on the future of the Arctic and the role of the arctic region to provide energy and resources to guarantee global sustainability. The report is the result of the collaborative study of 11 American scientists, doctors and lawyers ... Read More

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

Money, Debt, People & Planet

Jakob von Uexkull

Why we are not moving faster in tackling the global crises? We are told it is too expensive and not (yet) profitable enough to do so. The current debt crisis offers an opportunity to replace discredited debt-based money created by private banks in their interest with government-created debt-free money benefitting all, which can be used to fund a global emergency programme ... Read More

The Power of Money

Garry Jacobs & Ivo Šlaus

Money is a remarkable human invention, a mental symbol, a social organization and a means for the application and transfer of social power for accomplishment. This article is the first in a series of articles exploring the origins, nature and functioning of money and its creative power by comparing money with two other pre-eminent social institutions – language and the Internet ... Read More

On the Need for New Economic Foundations

Robert Hoffman

The body of macroeconomic theory known as the neoclassical-Keynesian synthesis that has dominated the practice of economics since the middle of the twentieth century is to be rejected on the grounds that it fails to address the major economic challenges of our times, that the assumptions upon which it is based are simplistic & unverifiable, & that the results do not follow from the assumptions ... Read More

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

Sovereignty and Nuclear Weapons

Winston P. Nagan & Garry
Jacobs

The current international security framework is based on an incomplete, anachronistic conception of sovereignty shaped largely by historical circumstance rather than principles of universal justice. Evolution of the global community over the past half century necessitates a reformulation of the concept to justly represent the rights of individual citizens and the global community as a whole ... Read More

World Peace Through Law: Rethinking an Old Theory

James T. Ranney

The author sets about re-thinking the old concept of "World Peace Through Law", meaning replacing the use of international force with the global rule of law. He traces the history of the WPTL concept back to the British legal philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose 1789 'Plan for an Universal and Perpetual Peace' proposed "a plan of general and permanent pacification for all Europe ... Read More

Federalism and Global Governance

John Scales Avery

It is becoming increasingly clear that the concept of the absolutely sovereign nation-state is a dangerous anachronism in a world of thermonuclear weapons, instantaneous communication, and economic interdependence. Probably our best hope for the future lies in developing the United Nations into a World Federation. The strengthened United Nations should have a legislature with the power to make laws that are binding on individuals ... Read More

Myth, Hiroshima and Fear: How We Overestimated the Usefulness of the Bomb

Ward Wilson

Recent evidence from World War II and the Cold War shows that nuclear weapons are far less useful as military and political tools than has been believed. Far from giving a madman the power to conquer the world, nuclear weapons are clumsy, dangerous technology with very few real uses - even if you have a monopoly ... Read More

How Reliance on Nuclear Weapons Erodes and Distorts International Law and Global Order

John Burroughs

Deployment of nuclear forces as an international security mechanism for prevention of major war is far removed from the world envisaged by the United Nations Charter in which threat or use of force is the exception, not the rule. Reliance on nuclear weapons has also distorted the development of major instruments of international humanitarian law and international criminal law ... Read More

Re-examining the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion: Concerning the Legality of Nuclear Weapons

Jasjit Singh

The primary objections raised against total elimination of nuclear weapons are built around a few arguments mostly of non-technical nature. Nuclear weapons and the strategies for their use have resulted in the establishment of a vicious circle within which the international community is trapped. The argument that the world will be unsafe without nuclear weapons is only meant to further the narrow self-interest of the nuclear weapon states and their allies ... Read More

India's Disarmament Initiative 1988: Continuing Relevance, Valid Pointers for an NWFW

Manpreet Sethi

The run up to the NPT Review Conference in 2010 brought nuclear disarmament into focus. Transitory though this trend turned out to be, it nevertheless became a trigger for India to re-examine its own position on disarmament. In order to take a considered view on the subject ... Read More

Nuclear Threats and Security

Garry Jacobs & Winston
Nagan

This article presents highlights and insights from the International Conference on "Nuclear Threats and Security" organized by the World Academy of Art and Science in association with the European Leadership Network and the Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy and sponsored by NATO at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik on September 14-16, 2012 ... Read More

An Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone - Needed Now

Adele Buckley

Climate change and nuclear weapons, the two great security threats of the 21st century, are uniquely influential in the Arctic. Although the current risk of conflict is low, the global future is potentially turbulent. There is a 'new' Arctic because of meltdown induced by climate change. ... Read More

Issue 5

Editorial: Call for a Revolution in Economics

Seed-Idea: Recognizing Unrecognized Genius
- Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs

Seed-Idea: Counter-Aging in the Post-Industrial Society
- Orio Giarini

Seed-Idea: Seeding Intrinsic Values: How a Law of Ecocide will Shift our Consciousness
- Polly Higgins

Crises and Opportunities: A Manifesto for Change
- Ian Johnson & Garry Jacobs

Double Factor Ten: Responsibility and Growth in the 21st Century
- F. J. Radermacher

Rio +20
- Robert Horn

The Future of the Arctic: A Key to Global Sustainability
- Francesco Stipo et al

Book Review - 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
- Michael Marien

Money, Debt, People and Planet
- Jakob von Uexkull

On the Need for New Economic Foundations: A Critique on Mainstream Macroeconomics
- Robert Hoffman

The Power of Money
- Garry Jacobs & Ivo Šlaus

New and Appropriate Economics for the 21st Century: A Survey of Critical Books, 1978-2013
- Michael Marien

Book Review - Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link
- Ivo Šlaus & Garry Jacobs

Book Review — Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing
- Michael Marien

Sovereignty and Nuclear Weapons
- Winston P. Nagan & Garry Jacobs

World Peace Through Law: Rethinking an Old Theory
- James T. Ranney

Federalism and Global Governance
- John Scales Avery

Myth, Hiroshima and Fear: How We Overestimated the Usefulness of the Bomb
- Ward Wilson

How Reliance on Nuclear Weapons Erodes and Distorts International Law and Global Order
- John Burroughs

Re-Examining the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion: Concerning the Legality of Nuclear Weapons
- Jasjit Singh

India's Disarmament Initiative 1988: Continuing Relevance, Valid Pointers for an NWFW
- Manpreet Sethi

Nuclear Threats and Security
- Garry Jacobs & Winston P. Nagan

An Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone - Needed Now
- Adele Buckley

ACTIVITIES & EVENTS

Report on Recent Events

Declaration of the Split Conference

Report on Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia

Stop the Insanity - Report on Astana Conference

The ATOM Project

The Power of Mind - Report on the Club of Rome Annual Conference in Bucharest