A series of brief papers introducing Futuresphere
Prometheus in the style of Jacques-Louis David
Rendered by AI
But is it ethical?
Futuresphere Unbound
addressing Futuresphere’s conceptual approach, objectives
and how to save the world from itself
F U T U R E S P H E R E U N B O U N D
A series of brief papers introducing Futuresphere’s major conceptual approaches and points of departure from yesterday’s thinking
Acknowledging and acceding to the importance of scrutiny of ideas, including ours
Before we examine others, we think it important to examine ourselves — to spell out our ideas and how and why they are different from the ideas of those around us. In this series of brief papers, we outline many of the key structures behind our ideas — our conceptualisations — from which our work will flow.
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Part 1
Polycrisis at four scales
Understanding the difficulties, complexity and causes of our current predicament
Part 5
Locating change: mesoeconomics
Finding the real missing middle in economics — institutions
Part 2
Factors inhibiting resolution
Part 3
Problem persistence
Why can we not overcome the inhibiting factors and resolve the problems?
Part 7
The mesoeconomic challenge
Heeding Kuznets’ warnings: why systems of national account distort our economic thinking.
Part 4
Putative solutions
Suggesting a path to follow to solve polycrisis and its component crises
Part 8
New New Political Economy
There have been several attempts at a new political economy; we need to do better this time — our lives depend on it
W I T H I N T H E A U R E L I U S I N I T I A T I V E
Moving the Needle
Concepts only get you so far. what will these concepts mean in practice?
What is stopping us from solving the problems we face?
Part 6
Crito-liberal synthesis
Proposing a newly ideological synthesis that respects economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty
(per Keynes, 1931)
Part 9
A theory of change
What is change and how does it happen. To change the right ways, we need to know