Social Economics: An Innovative Practical Approach

We are in a difficult situation. We confront rampant and perhaps calamitous pollution and other forms of environmental disruption; dwindling resources; a hardship inflation coupled with persistently high unemployment; distrust of public and private institutions; and crime, poverty, malnutrition, anxiety, discontent, alienation, and despair in an unprecedented convergence. The old solutions do not work very well, and no one, including the experts, appears to know what to do about it. There is the distinct feeling that nothing quite like this has ever happened before, seemingly ushered in by relative peace and absolute prosperity, and that the forces at work under these conditions are not well enough understood to enable us to manage them.