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Power to Hope and to Reimagine that a Better World is Possible
When we combine hope with imagination, we unlock the ability to envision innovative solutions to social, environmental, and systemic issues, enabling and empowering ourselves to champion the values needed to build a better world.
All said and done, in a nut shell, the path to our empowerment is: Throw the orgy of the discredited neoliberalism into the dustbin of history. Lest we forget, unless we change our economic philosophy, the false values that are currently underpinning our economic strategies and above all our obsession with endless economic growth, nothing, absolutely nothing, will change for the better. We are at the edge and sooner or later we will fall off the cliff.
Nota bene
As an economist who has studied, researched and worked an an academician in economics, ethics, philosophy and theology, amongst others, I now firmly believe that the most assured way to ensure economic success and to build a better world is to broaden one’s horizons of thought, wisdom, insight, empathy, and the need to underpin economics, scientific and technical changes, with steel beams of philosophy, humanities, and spirituality. These being the means to see every person’s need for respect, self-awareness and status of the best sort. Modern economics has become a monetised/ materialistic discipline. But literature, poetry, arts, music, philosophy, logic, religions, mysticism, empathy, kindness, and spirituality have taught me immeasurably more than strict economics ever could.
Pearls of Wisdom: The Transformative Power of a Values-led Economics and Economic Education
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My Manifesto for Change to Make Economics Good Again
I am a retired academic economist and a storyteller with a story to tell