Sublime

I believe that in order to transition to a fair, just, and sustainable world we must raise the consciousness of all of Earth’s people.

But left unchecked, state sovereignty tends to slide into authoritarianism at home and anarchy abroad – as is prefigured in the works of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes. That is why a postliberal politics seeks to hold in balance not just the central state and intermediary institutions but also patriotism and internationalism.

meritocracy.

People increasingly believe that the immense systems established more than a century ago to strengthen the nation should actually serve the happiness and well-being of individual citizens.

For the first time, those who can educate and motivate themselves will be almost entirely free to invent their own work and realize the full benefits of their own productivity.

As with large corporations, to him, governments become “inefficient once they cross a certain size threshold.”

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences,” he wrote, “are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

foundations were laid in Victorian times. Now it is changing radically. Standard economics is suddenly being challenged by a number of new approaches: behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, new institutional economics. One of the new approaches came to life at the Santa Fe Institute: complexity economics.