Max Borders
Field of reference: Sociology
Description: human society arranged as an ecosystem
"In an ecosystem, success can be defined simply as survival and failure as death. In complex society, failure can, of course, result in death. But in an economic sense, failure is the inability to create value—which is to say a failure to engage in some productive activity that others both find desirable enough to exchange something else of lesser value. If success is, in some sense, creating value for others in exchange for something more valuable, then the whole system is iterative at root – binary (either success or failure) – and the extended system of interdependency generates prosperity and diversity in so far as people do a good job of fulfilling the desires of other people in mutual benefit. A system of prices, profits and loss is a measure of this success and failure. Profit is an indicator that value has been created. Loss is an indicator that value has been lost or destroyed. At the system level, the entire edifice of successful means-ends behaviors can result in tremendous dynamism and human flourishing."
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Dr. Robert Putnam, Dr. Robert Leonardi, Dr. Raffaella Y. Nanetti
Field of references: Economics, Politics, Anthropology
Description: Civic and economic success are corelated to social networks
"Studying comparative levels of citizens' satisfaction with civic institutions when Italy instituted regional government made possible a multi-decade study that revealed how centuries-old norms of trust, reciprocity, and social networks among the inhabitants of regions led to high levels of civic and economic success, while the absence of rich lateral ties predicted lower levels of success and satisfaction in other regions."
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Dr. William H. McNeill, Dr. Robert McNeill
Field of reference: History
Description: Communication has increased the unification of the world into a cosmopolitan web of competition and cooperation.
"This synthesis of world history from the days of isolated hunter-gatherer communities to the present electronically connected cosmopolitan, interconnected world shows that all of humanity today lives in a "unitary maelstrom of cooperation and competition," and that the global spread of ideas, information, and experience "constitute[s] the overarching structure of human history."
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Dr. Ulrich Beck
Field of reference: Sociology
Description: What globality means for us.
"Globality means that from now on nothing which happens on our planet is only a limited local event; all inventions, victories and catastrophes affect the whole world, and we must reorient and reorganize our lives and actions, our organizations and institutions, along a 'local-global' axis."
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Dr. Ulrich Beck
Field of reference: Sociology
Description: Reasons for irreversible globality.
"What is it that makes globality irreversible?
Eight reasons may be given under the following headings:
1) The geographical expansion and ever greater density of international trade, as well as the global networking of finance markets and the growing power of transnational corporations.
2) The ongoing revolution of information and communications technology
3) The universal demand for human rights - the principle of democracy.
4) The stream of images from the global culture industries.
5) The emergence of a postnational, polycentric world politics, in which transnational actors (corporations, non-governmental organization, united nations) are growing in power and number alongside governments
6) The question of world poverty
7) The issue of global environmental destruction.
8) Trans-cultural conflicts in one and the same place."
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