Towards a Global Comprehensive Context-driven and Decision-focused Theory and Method for a New Political Economy
There is currently significant dissatisfaction with conventional economic theory. The unreliability of conventional theory as a predictor of future economic possibilities of catastrophes emphasizes the need for a new paradigm of political economy. This paper provides a capsule of some of the importa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Risk Institute, Trieste- Geneva
2014-05-01
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| Series: | Cadmus |
| Online Access: | http://www.cadmusjournal.org/article/volume-2/issue-2-part-2/towards-global-comprehensive-context-driven-and-decision-focused-theory |
| Summary: | There is currently significant dissatisfaction with conventional economic theory. The unreliability of conventional theory as a predictor of future economic possibilities of catastrophes emphasizes the need for a new paradigm of political economy. This paper provides a capsule of some of the important limitations and consequences of the “old” paradigm. It proposes the necessary elements of a new paradigm and it seeks to locate the new paradigm of political economy in terms of its global reach. This requires a richer contextual approach, with the tools of contextual mapping. It has as well a focus on the global process of effective power and the emerging rule of law based constitutive processes. This is a key to the role of decision and the architecture of decision-making in political economy. We conclude with the global to local implications of the Vicos Experiment in Peru. Finally, we stress the wider lens of focus to identify the real and not the illusory generation of value. The implications here facilitate real global democratization. |
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| ISSN: | 2038-5242 2038-5250 |