The objective of this paper is to establish design criteria for developing a global brain that is integrated with humanity to govern life on the planet in a satisfactory environment. Three sources of design criteria are identified. (i) The limited ability of humans to: receive, manipulate,...

New title for re-publication of PhD Thesis as a book with added Appendices: I, Keywords and concepts; II, Examiners report of November 5, 2000 confirming contributions to knowledge; III, Subsequent literature developed from Thesis. The promotional summary for the book states: Dr Turnbull's thesis...

This paper reviews the efficacy of the Australian government’s initiatives to counter misconduct identified by its Royal Commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industries. We answer the Commission’s Interim report question as to whether existing law...

Cash-flow rather than profit is presented as a basis for grounding the discipline of economics in commercial reality. It allows the traditional remit of economics to be expanded from the production and exchange of goods and services to also include the exchange and transformation of assets and...

The report was commissioned by the Australian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in June 1977 to evaluate the impact of distributing mining royalties to Aboriginal Communities. The Prime Minister of Australia announced the commissioning of the report in Parliament on August 23, 1977 with the...

This paper investigates the utility of all intellectual property rights being time limited with no limits required for real assets and corporate shares. Ownership rights evolved from hereditary rulers seeking to maintain political power and wealth in perpetuity. This objective is no longer...

10.2 trillion dollars have been lost in the US alone in the past two years. 45% of world’s wealth has been destroyed and three of the largest bankruptcies in the US have occurred in the past year. Just as the majority of observers thought lessons from Enron had been learned, crisis has struck...

The emergence of cloud banking in developing economies from billions of cell phones transacting both legal tender and informal units of accounts has created a need to reconsider habits of thinking about the nature of money and banking in advanced societies. The dysfunctional nature of modern...