Creating a Learning Society explains how the countries of the world went from centuries of stagnation to the enormous increases in standards of living that have marked the last two hundred and fifty years: they have learned how to learn. Yet, as Stiglitz and Greenwald make clear, markets won't...

It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge....

Klimakatastrophe, Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise, Ausplünderung der Erde und geistige Orientierungslosigkeit- wir können diese globalen Brennpunkte nur angehen, wenn wir sie als Symptome einer umfassenderen, epochalen Bewusstseinskrise erkennen. Geseko v. Lüpke präsentiert Analysen und...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Note on the 2001 Edition -- Author's Acknowledgments -- The Hundred Years' Peace -- Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties -- ''Habitation versus Improvement'' -- Societies and Economic Systems -- Evolution of the Market Pattern -- The...