The Problematique Resolved.
This six-page essay by Keith Wilde was based on a lunchtime presentation to CACOR in September 1998.
1998 Series 1 Number 27 Page 19
He began with this:
“I propose that a relatively simple and effective solution is [at] hand the problematique identified by the Club of Rome 30 some years ago. It relies on techniques which fall into the domains of politics and finance, but I believe it is fairly easy to infer positive impacts on elements of the problematic other than material needs and political freedoms bracket thinking (for example, of urban congestion, pollution, health, resource depletion).
“It is my hope that members of this group and others will join me in an exploration of what I perceived to be a major evolutionary step in political economy, to evaluate its core, and to infer the likely consequences for issues that concern us collectively and as individuals. Essential details of the financial wing of the solution have been explained several times by several persons whose experience in the subject matter cannot be tossed aside lightly. Since I can provide improve on neither their authority nor their expository efforts, I simply provided copies of two excellent one page essays for participants at the cake or luncheon. To avoid potential problems with copyright the editor has suggested that I provide my own summary, plus references.
[Said information was provided. Ed.]
Skipping to the following page, he proposed that a combination of Kelso’s brand of universal capitalism with direct democracy, as defined by Gravel, implies an evolutionary leap in the political economic tradition called liberal democracy. He then went on to explain.
[Kelso was an economist of the mid- to late-20th century. For an explanation of ‘universal capitalism,’ see < Microsoft Word – TWO-FACTOR THEORY.docx (kelsoinstitute.org) >. Ed.]
[I’m fairly sure that he was referring to Mr. Michael Gravel, American politician. See < The Gravel Institute – Wikipedia >. Ed.]
[Keith Wilde was a public policy analyst in Ottawa where he collaborated with Wojciechowski and others in a multi-disciplinary “Ecology of Knowledge Network” to infer policy imperatives from trends in science, technology, and social values. Ed.]
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