George Soros
Field of reference: Economics
Description: We need a whole new order, including a new financial system, and this reinvention requires global awarness and cooperation
“A whole new world order, including a new financial order and rules, involving international cooperation, is imperative. A new system of rules, institutions, and procedures regulating the international monetary system, as the “Bretton Woods” system did in 1944, may be a starting point. The United State’s position, as a current economic and political Superpower, may be threatened if a true global effort is not initiated. The alternative is terrifying, because a superpower losing both political and economic governance, with military dominance, is a dangerous situation. Although President Obama has been actively trying to enlist international cooperation, resistance is still at large. The main culprit, by far, is the collective lack of awareness that a broken system is amongst us. Reinvention of any system requires all hands on deck. The world’s future seriously depends on global awareness and cooperation.”
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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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Christine Lagarde
Field of reference: Economics
"בעולם שלנו, אשר הופך תלוי ומקושר יותר ויותר, אף מדינה או איזור לא יכולים להצליח לבד"....כריסטין לגארד, הזהירה מהסיכונים של "עשור אבוד" לכלכלה העולמית אלא אם כן המדינות יפעלו יחד כדי להתמודד עם האיומים על הצמיחה.
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Dr. Sergey Karaganov
Field of reference: Politics
Description: a quote on global interdependence and unity as a solution
"It is clear that the global crisis is only beginning and will affect everyone. But it is not clear how and when all countries will jointly start overcoming it."
"This crisis and this new period in world history threaten to inflict inevitable hardships on billions of people"
"The matter at hand is not just a deep financial and economic crisis. This is an overall crisis of the entire system of global governance; a crisis of ideas on which global development was based; and a crisis of international institutions. Overcoming this overall crisis will require a new round of reforms, the construction of international institutions and systems for governing the world economy and finance, and a new philosophy for global development."
"One must be morally and politically ready for that period of creation, and already now, despite the crisis, one must start building up one’s intellectual potential so that in a year or several years one could be ready to put forward one’s own, well-grounded proposals for rebuilding the international governance system on a more just and stable basis."
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