What Values To Design Economics Around? Keynes Final Question

[chris macrae]

Keynes ended his life's opus "General Theory" with: Now that we know that the world will increasingly be ruled only by economics, what values do we need to design into economics?

 

This was arguably the most important maths question ever posed  although Einstein and Von Neumann also worked on synergetic quesries.

 

• Choose the right values to gravitate around and the professional body of economists can help people design futures that most of our human race wants most,
• Choose the woing values and economists (and other ruling professions) will be perfect at destroying human futures

 

Keynes chose to answer his question : make sure your system designs are pro-youth - ie investing in next generation's productive potential to improve the human lot out of every community.

 

Using that logic my father (Norman Macrae) Teh Economist's editor of pro-youth economics for most of te sceond half of the 20th century,  proposed the genre of Entreprenurial Revolution in The Economist to integrate debates of the most exciting goals the 21st century could be born with immediately after his life-changing introduction to youth sharing knowledge around a digital network in 1972.

 

A secondary question of deep mathematical priority is : having chosen the value that you wish man-made systems to be ruled round, what other values correlate positively and which values have negative correlations (ie can only destroy the value you chose to compound the future round)?

 

Here are some positive and negative associations with pro-youth economics. What this means is if you find yourself being governed by a system that stimulates any of the columnised behaviours and mindsets you are likely to be spun around all of the ones in the same list.

Pro-Youth	.,Devalues Youth,
Multiplies goodwill, transparency and sustainability of all communities.	Mutiplies badwill, hidden conflicts and exponential loss of sustainability starting with places that already have the least resources for youth to grow up safe and smart
Relentlessly and optimistically explores for next gamechanger toward win-win-win	Spends ever more money chaining peoples to lose-lose-lose and rules over fear of change even while claiming to celebrate progress
Celebrates bottom-up and open wherever media innovation offers a choice	Gives away the commons to ever more big brother- command and control, and divide and siloise
Thrives on linking in all the positive emotional intelligences- love hope trust happiness	Breeds such emotional cancers as hate , distrust, depression and loss of hope
inspires cross-cultural self-confidence before adolesence	represses cross-cultural self-confidence

Economics -man-ruled global system design - spirals exponentially in one of 2 opposite directions. There is no halfway answer to the question: what futures do you wish for the human race to invest in? For that reason we urgently recommend that Keynes Last Question should also be introduced in through open worldwide curriculafitted for every grade from 3rd (8 years up).

 

Since 1984 we have been mapping which education entrepreneurs agree with this need - rsvp [e-mail] to share searches that map the left-hand journey throigh the 21st C and the most exciting goals humans conceive of co-producing. In 2010 we have a million times more collaboration technology than when man raced to the moon. LET IT BE  www.worldeconomist.net