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CADMUS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED Inside This Issue The Academy will continue calling for a human-centered paradigm shift that is required to confront man-made CADMUS complexities, hazards and the fragile landscape affecting almost two billion people globally. PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT Donato Kiniger-Passigli, WAAS-UN: A Special THAT LEADS TO ACTION NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES Consultative Status and its Inspirational Value A concerted effort to release and mobilize the energies of civil society at the national and global level based on humanity’s aspiration for peace, security, freedom, prosperity, harmony and social equality is the common strategy that can propel rapid advancement for both Korea and the world community. Volume 3, Issue 3 October 2017 ISSN 2038-5242 Garry Jacobs, Challenges are Opportunities for Korea and the World Inside This Issue The most urgent task is a great educational action, to ARTICLES make us aware of our current responsibilities, to help us become full citizens instead of mere subjects, to enable WAAS-UN: A Spl. Consultative us to anticipate. Status & its Inspirational Value — D. Kiniger-Passigli Federico Mayor Zaragoza, The Ethics of Time in the face of Global Challenges: The Time has come for action Challenges are Opportunities for Korea & the World — G. Jacobs To transform and prepare our education system for the The Ethics of Time in the face transition into a human-centered economy, we should of Global Challenges — F. Mayor start questioning the basic assumptions of current economic theory. Transforming Education — E. Çepni Elif Çepni, Transforming Education for a Transition into Human-centered Economy and Post-normal Times Building that Bridge over the Skills Gap — J. Ramanathan The growing complexity of the work place and the Social Democratic — W. P. Nagan uncertainty of the world around require in every individual Constitutionalism & C. Hammer a well-formed individuality. Janani Ramanathan, Revisiting Evolutionary Path — G. Gutenschwager Building that Bridge over the Skills Gap High-Level System Change — F. Dixon The role of law in seeking to marginalize the authoritative Foresight's FOUR Frames — D. Harries processes of economic regulation must become more responsible to a range of values broader than mere Political Economy of Neo- efficiency and the worship of natural law based market liberalism & Illiberal Democracy — G. Jacobs fundamentalism. Economy and Society — E. Hoedl Winston P. Nagan & Craig Hammer, Social Democratic Constitutionalism, New Economic Original Minds: Sri Aurobindo Theory & the Dangers of Neoliberalism's Attacks on — Integral Scientist — W. Stinson Rational Government Regulation Human Attitudes that prevent Continued . advance of Human Progress — A. Natarajan Book Reviews: Global Systems €10 Change: 6 Linked Perspectives — M. Marien EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman: Ivo Šlaus, Honorary President, World Academy of Art & Science; Member, Club of Rome, European Leadership Network and Pugwash Council; Dean, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations & Diplomacy, Zagreb, Croatia. Today’s social problems are everybody’s problems; our fragmented perception of life Editor-in-Chief: Orio Giarini, Director, The Risk Institute, Geneva and Trieste; Fellow, World Academy of must become more holistic. Art & Science; Honorary Member, Club of Rome. Gerald Gutenschwager, Revisiting our Managing Editor: Garry Jacobs, Chief Executive Officer, World Academy of Art & Science and Evolutionary Path: The Search for Holistic Education in a Fragmented World World University Consortium; Member, Club of Rome; Vice-President, The Mother’s Service Society, Pondicherry, India. Successful high-level system change will focus on addressing the true enemies of Members: humanity—our myopic thinking and the flawed systems that result from it. Zbigniew Bochniarz, Professor, Kozminski University, Warsaw, University of Washington and Harvard Business School, USA; Member of the Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science. Frank Dixon, Erich Hoedl: Vice-President, European Academy of Sciences & Arts; Former Rector, Wuppertal High-Level System Change: Protecting Business and Society University and Graz University of Technology; Member, Austrian Chapter of Club of Rome; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science. Foresight is the ability to ‘see’ allwards in time and place: forwards, backwards, Michael Marien, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, Global Foresight Books; Senior upwards, downwards, left and right, and most important of all, inwards. Principal, Security & Sustainability Guide. David Harries, Winston P. Nagan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chair of Program Committee, World Academy of Foresight’s FOUR Frames Art & Science; Editor of Eruditio Journal; Professor of Law & Director, Institute for Human Rights, Peace & Development, University of Florida, USA. Alberto Zucconi, Secretary General, World University Consortium; Treasurer & Member of the Board of Democracy is not merely a mechanical set of laws and institutions. The external Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; President, Person-Centered Approach Institute, Italy. hardware of democracy is made viable and functional on the basis of social, cultural and psychological software. Editorial & Technical Staff: Vasugi Balaji, Latha Chandrasekaran, Shashini Kumar, Janani Ramanathan, Ranjani Ravi, Vani Senthil and Ranganayaki Somaskandan. Garry Jacobs, The Political Economy of Neoliberalism and Illiberal Democracy The CADMUS Journal Social power of the population has to be increased through widespread human- The acronym of the South-East European Division of The World Academy of Art & Science— centred education, more participation in political and economic decisions, secure SEED—prompted us to initiate a journal devoted to seed ideas—to leadership in thought that minimum income, freedom of choice and organisation of autonomous individuals. leads to action. Cadmus (or Kadmos in Greek and Phoenician mythology) was a son of King Erich Hoedl, Agenor and Queen Telephassa of Tyre, and brother of Cilix, Phoenix and Europa. Cadmus is Economy & Society: Strategies for a more Equal Distribution of Societal Power credited with introducing the original alphabet—the Phoenician alphabet, with “the invention” of agriculture, and with founding the city of Thebes. His marriage to Harmonia represents Sri Aurobindo was certainly a scientist. However, he was not a part of the scientific the symbolic coupling of Eastern learning and Western love of beauty. The youngest son of establishment, or any establishment for that matter. As such, he was not constrained Cadmus and Harmonia was Illyrius. The city of Zagreb, which is the formal seat of SEED, was to limit his inquiry to the empirically verifiable and in fact took on as his primary once part of Illyria, a region in what is today referred to as the Western Balkans. Cadmus will objective the creation of a “unified theory”. be a journal for fresh thinking and new perspectives that integrates knowledge from all fields of Walton Stinson, science, arts and humanities to address real-life issues, inform policy and decision-making, and Original Minds: Sri Aurobindo – Integral Scientist enhance our collective response to the challenges and opportunities facing the world today. When it comes to solving the problems the earth faces, man should fully employ the power of Reason. Copyright: Garry Jacobs, The Risk Institute Editorial Office: The Mother's Service Society Ashok Natarajan, 5, Puduvai Sivam Street, Venkata Nagar – Pondicherry 605011 – India Human Attitudes that Prevent the Advance of Human Progress and Civilization Published under Open Access policy guidelines by Garry Jacobs, The Risk Institute, 4225, Solano Avenue, Suite 631, Napa, CA 94558, USA It is not science and technology that endanger humanity, but human choices or errors. Visit http://cadmusjournal.org/content/editorial-policy for Editorial Policy. Michael Marien, Book Reviews: Global Systems Change: Six Linked Perspectives Websites: www.cadmusjournal.org – www.worldacademy.org – www.newwelfare.org E-mail: [email protected] Printed by: Akaram, Plot No.1, Nirmala Nagar, Thanjavur, India PROMOTING LEADERSHIP IN THOUGHT THAT LEADS TO ACTION THE WEALTH OF NATIONS REVISITED CADMUS NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MAJOR GLOBAL ISSUES Volume 3, Issue 3 October 2017 THE RISK INSTITUTE GENEVA - NAPA - PONDICHERRY - TRIESTE - ZAGREB 1 CADMUS VISION The world is in need of guiding ideas, a vision, to more effectively direct our intellectual, moral and scientific capabilities for world peace, global security, human dignity and social justice. Today we face myriad challenges. Unprecedented material and technological achievements co-exist with unconscionable and in some cases increasing poverty, inequality and injustice. Advances in science have unleashed remarkable powers, yet these very powers as presently wielded threaten to undermine the very future of our planet. Rapidly rising expectations have increased frustrations and tensions that threaten the fabric of global society. Prosperity itself has become a source of instability and destruction when wantonly pursued without organizational safeguards for our collective well-being. No longer able to afford the luxury of competition and strife based primarily on national, ethnic or religious interests and prejudices, we need urgently to acquire the knowledge and fashion the institutions required for free, fair and effective global governance. In recent centuries the