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Volume 2, Issue 2 - May 2014

Expanding Network of Networks
With the founding of the World University Consortium of educational institutions last year, WAAS has taken the first step to convert informal relationships into a formal umbrella group of organizations capable of leadership in thought that leads to action at the global level ... Read more
The Coming Revolution in Education
The quantitative extension of access to free quality higher education made possible by the MOOCs is itself only the beginning of something far more important. The coming revolution will tear down the barriers that separate the ivory tower from the real world. ... Read more
New Paradigm: The Necessity and the Opportunity
A new paradigm must necessarily be founded on a new conceptual framework. There is no shortcut ... Read more
Transition to a New Society
As quantum physics/theory of relativity provided explosion of surprises, so the forthcoming paradigm shift can produce an explosion of even richer surprises ... Read more
Environmental Acceptability as the driver of New Civilization
Achieving the required level of global, systemic change – and overcoming the seemingly immovable implementation gap that is blocking progress – will require political leadership, vision and courage, rather than an adaptive ... Read more
The Digital Era: Challenges for the Modern Mind
Collective cognitive power is more a function of the society as a whole than it is of its individual members. Intelligence, as manifest in such things as new technologies, and complex ways of life, is largely a product of a collective system ... Read more
Change the World by Changing Economics
We need holistic and long-term approaches and solutions. But our most important societal systems (capitalism and democracy) are built on short-term thinking, mechanisms and dynamics. Official reactions to and our systemic challenges tend to be sectoral and not holistic ... Read more
The Crisis of the Existing Global Paradigm of Governance and Political Economy
What is needed is an economic paradigm that is not confound to a single state or sovereign but a paradigm that functions within the context of a global, social and political process and responds to the problems that emerge from this process ... Read more
Lessons from World War I
The problem of building a stable, just, and war-free world is difficult, but it is not impossible ... Read more
Towards a Global Comprehensive Context-Driven and Decision-Focused Theory and Method for a New Political Economy
New economic theory must ensure the termination of dysfunctional traditional standards and embrace new thinking ... Read more
Double Helix of Learning and Work
The classical education system was dominated by theory. Now, emphasis is being laid on learning through experience and on work-based learning ... Read more
Towards a New Paradigm in Education
There is a pressing need to move beyond existing concepts and models to conceive and implement a system more capable of tapping the rich human potential that remains largely undeveloped and neglected by the existing system ... Read more
The Riches of the Ocean for Humankind: Rethinking Value in Economics and Development
The integration of wisdom from two centuries of economic thinking and the legitimate requirements of the ecological and environmental needs and demands should naturally find their synthesis ... Read more
Book Reviews
What is lacking is a bedrock of common values to create a shared ambition for civilization ... Read more
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Transition to a New Society

Ivo Šlaus

As quantum physics/theory of relativity provided explosion of surprises, so the forthcoming paradigm shift can produce an explosion of even richer surprises ... Read More

New Paradigm: The Necessity and the Opportunity

Garry Jacobs

A new paradigm must necessarily be founded on a new conceptual framework. There is no shortcut ... Read More

Environmental Acceptability as the driver of New Civilization

Alexander Likhotal

Achieving the required level of global, systemic change – and overcoming the seemingly immovable implementation gap that is blocking progress – will require political leadership, vision and courage, rather than an adaptive strategy of small steps, and a revitalized multilateral governance architecture adequate to meeting the interconnected challenges reflective of the 21st century .... Read More

Change the World by Changing Economics

Karl Wagner

We need holistic and long-term approaches and solutions. But our most important societal systems (capitalism and democracy) are built on short-term thinking, mechanisms and dynamics. Official reactions to and our systemic challenges tend to be sectoral and not holistic ... Read More

The Crisis of the Existing Global Paradigm of Governance and Political Economy

Winston P. Nagan

What is needed is an economic paradigm that is not confound to a single state or sovereign but a paradigm that functions within the context of a global, social and political process and responds to the problems that emerge from this process from a global inclusive perspective ... Read More

The Digital Era: Challenges for the Modern Mind

Merlin Donald

Collective cognitive power is more a function of the society as a whole than it is of its individual members. Intelligence, as manifest in such things as new technologies, and complex ways of life, is largely a product of a collective system that coordinates the intellectual resources of an entire society ... Read More

Towards a Global Comprehensive Context-Driven and Decision-Focused Theory and Method for a New Political Economy

Winston Nagan & Valeen Arena

New economic theory must ensure the termination of dysfunctional traditional standards and embrace new thinking ... Read More

Double Helix of learning and work

Orio Giarini & Mircea Malitza

The classical education system was dominated by theory. Now, emphasis is being laid on learning through experience and on work-based learning .... Read More

Towards a New Paradigm in Education

Garry Jacobs

There is a pressing need to move beyond existing concepts and models to conceive and implement a system more capable of tapping the rich human potential that remains largely undeveloped and neglected by the existing system ... Read More

Lessons from World War I

John Scales Avery

The problem of building a stable, just, and war-free world is difficult, but it is not impossible ... Read More

The Riches of the Ocean for Humankind: Rethinking Value in Economics and Development

Orio Giarini

The integration of wisdom from two centuries of economic thinking and the legitimate requirements of the ecological and environmental needs and demands should naturally find their synthesis in a new notion of value ... Read More

Book Reviews

Michael Marien

What is lacking is a bedrock of common values to create a shared ambition for civilization .... Read More