This is a book about economics and culture: two of the most powerful forces at work shaping our world. The first of these forces - economics - gave rise to the economic age we are living in at present. It is an age that has made economics, economies, and economic growth in general, and the productio...

7. Functioning of a Cultural Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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The systematic interpretation of culture brings us close to the thesis that global development is in reality the development of cultures and civilizations.—Nada Svob-Dokic (1991), p. 299 Now that firm foundations have been laid for a cultural age, it is possible to turn our attention to how a cultur...

8. Priorities for a Cultural Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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Will humans make the choices that need to be made to bring about a future world at peace?—Elise Boulding (2000), p. 256 While many priorities may be identified for a cultural age, among the most essential are a new environmental reality; an all-out assault on the barriers to the fulfilment of human...

Epilogue

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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When we think of the world’s future, we always mean the destination it will reach if it keeps going in the direction we can see it going in now; it does not occur to us that its path is not a straight line but a curve, constantly changing direction.—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1980), p. 3e. Due to developm...

2. Evolution of the Economic Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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In the history of economic ideas four major analytical traditions—the classical, Marxian, neoclassical, and Keynesian—stand out. Each was organized around a different set of questions. The circumstances that spurred their formulation have been considerably altered by subsequent events. Nevertheless,...

5. Signs of a Cultural Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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Culture in the future is the crux of the future.—Eleonora Barbieri Masini (1991), Vol. I, p. 6 If there were signs that an economic age was dawning towards the end of the eighteenth century, there are signs that a cultural age is dawning today. While these signs cannot be traced to a single year, su...

4. Assessment of the Economic Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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There is... one difficult exercise to which we may accustom ourselves as we become increasingly culture-conscious. We may train ourselves to pass judgement upon the dominant traits of our own civilization. It is difficult enough for anyone brought up under their power to recognize them. It is still...

9. Flourishing of a Cultural Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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Culture is like a tree, a fabulous tree, in which each branch is formed differently from its neighbour, each flower has its own colour and fragrance, each fruit its special sweetness. This wealth and abundance has developed naturally. Each culture and each people bears its individual stamp, but the...

3. Mechanics of the Economic Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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The economic ideology, the dominant intellectual framework in the world today, has reduced practically every human value to the categories of economics: production and consumption, basic needs and satisfiers, human rights, scarcity, nature, energy, systems, Cartesian time and space, the assumption t...

1. Origins of the Economic Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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The task is far from simple, yet understanding ourselves and the world we have created—and which in turn creates us—is perhaps the single most important task facing mankind today.—Edward Hall (1976), p. 195 If the origins of the economic age can be traced back to a single year, surely that would be...

6. Foundations for a Cultural Age

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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Culture constitutes the topmost phenomenal level yet recognized—or for that matter, now imaginable—in the realm of nature.—Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn (1963), p. 290 If a cultural age is to function effectively, it will have to be erected on firm foundations. Without this it will be not be po...

Revolution or Renaissance

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D. Paul Schafer (27 sept. 2017)

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In "Revolution or Renaissance," D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world - economics and culture - to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however, i...

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