In the last issue of INTERECONOMICS Willis W. Harman and Bernard Cazes explained their views of the basic political, economic, and social problems which the USA and Europe, respectively, will face in the 1980s. The following article which is also an excerpt from the author’s report to the...

The first day of the Second International Symposium on New Problems of Advanced Societies held from May 3 to 7, 1976, in Hamburg, was devoted to “Basic Political and Social Problems of the 1980’s”. In the following article those problems are traced back to a number of fundamental failures....

This article is an excerpt from the author’s report presented at the Second International Symposium on New Problems of Advanced Societies in which he also discussed possible interrelations between military and economic parameters as well as some of Europe’s domestic problems.