Another breakdown of the welfare state concept
Covid crisis handling proved welfare state to fail and to downgrade civil society’s ability to protect itself from future black swan events. Continue Reading
Complexity
How to erase memory in virtual world?
There is no administrator that would or could administer global digital memory. Continue Reading
What saturates formal democracy?
Contrary to the general impression, it is not so difficult to explain God’s emergence and function in human history. We can easily disregard God as a pre-scientific concept, but we cannot accept God’s role in almost any society. Even if… Continue Reading
Thaler is right and markets are perfect
Thaler’s behavioural economics and neoclassical economics get along very well. The latter is not interested in the individual, but in the emergence of interactions. Continue Reading
Responsibility vs. democracy
Responsibility does not come with equality. Continue Reading
How a pencil refutes centralized circular economy?
The famous Milton Friedman pencil case concerning the circular economy and integrated reporting is a topic of this post. Milton Friedman’s “pencil case” can be found in his book Free to Choose. A shorter but sufficiently explanatory version can be… Continue Reading
Benefits of circular economy fake trend
The circular economy is not fake; it is a fake trend. Circularity is a necessary feature of life. It becomes a fake trend when vested interests and consultants abuse it. The concept that attracts so much public attention is nothing… Continue Reading
Marketing, PR and Integrated Reporting
Terminology is important. Clarifying the concepts behind important terms has always been a passion of mine. So many conceptual blunders can be found in the so-called social sciences in particular, both in the past and today, and management and communications… Continue Reading
Kitchen logic (1): Holism
I guess we all experience awkward moments from time to time, seeing simple basic truths behind complicated explanations. Buzzwords like “circular economy”, “sharing economy” or “universal basic income” are the most frequent examples. There is an abundance of such buzzwords… Continue Reading
Branding as integration vehicle for IR
Integrated reporting is based on two premises: That organisations behave like living beings (biological premise). That living beings exist holistically (holistic premise). Taken together, these two premises limit the possibilities of organisational philosophy, explanation, design, governance, control, risk management, and… Continue Reading