Issue 2
In This Issue
Academia plays an enormous role in building new human capital but its effectiveness depends on many other factors, including political system and culture, which could encourage or suppress critical thinking and creativity – the unlimited ability of this capital to create values.
Lead Articles
An Economist’s Reflections on Individuality
Individuality, human and social capital represent the core interests of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) in research and educational ...
A Civilized Society: Preparing the World-System for Redesign
There is a widespread belief that the terms worldview and mindset are interchangeable. I cannot agree and contend there are profound differences and ...
Bridging Political, Cultural and Religious Divides
Science unravels the universe and empowers man. Technology has made life easier and is continuing to make the inconceivable possible. ...
The Relationship between European Integration & the End of the Cold War
Our article emphasizes the essential role of the individual as a transformative agent in society and the demand by individuals as essential ...
Values guide our way through the possibilities and problems of life and they are the main drivers behind our societal instruments like economy ...
Limits to Rationality and the boundaries of perception
There is a widespread belief that the terms worldview and mindset are interchangeable. I cannot agree and contend there are profound differences and ...
Science unravels the universe and empowers man. Technology has made life easier and is continuing to make the inconceivable possible. ...
Rationality in a Complex World
What follows is a concise overview of the various aspects of human rationality, and specifically of its limits. If rationality is an exercise of reason, a means to derive conclusions ...
The development of Knowledge and Language is interdependent. It is sometimes difficult to comprehend a phenomenon until after we have formulated a special word or concept to express it....
Revolutions come in many forms. There are the traditional ones, with mass uprisings, violence and dethroning. In what was perhaps one of the earliest revolutions nearly three thousand years ago,...
Book Review — Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries
It is sometimes said that you can’t tell a book by its cover. Or by its title, or sub-title. This 33rd Report to the Club of Rome is a case in point. ...
Is Economics a Value Free Science?
What follows is a concise overview of the various aspects of human rationality, and specifically of its limits. If rationality is an exercise of reason, ...
Book Review: Dancing at the Edge
The development of Knowledge and Language is interdependent. It is sometimes difficult to comprehend a phenomenon until after we have formulated a special word or concept to express it....