The increasing urgency of environmental issues necessitates the rethinking of our societal model. This book explores this assertion by going back in time and pinpointing the turning points in the evolution of European society that we are currently experiencing.
Productive Economy, Contributory Economy presents an analysis of the factors affecting the evolution of our societal model, emerging from sedentarism, which culminated in the industrial age. To further this evolution, we must allow the common good to prosper: family, knowledge, innovation, democracy and spirituality. This book presents a dual contributory and productive economy to be put into place, as well as the synergy that can be established between these two spaces of human contribution. It also studies the instruments of governance that we will need, such as smart money, as well as the conditions of their success.
Author(s): Genevieve Bouche
Series: Innovation, Enterpreneurship, Management Series: Innovation and Technology Set, 15
Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 297
City: London
Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword by Marc Luyckx Ghisi
Foreword by Éric Seulliet
Preface
Part 1. The Driving Facts of Change
Introduction to Part 1
Chapter 1. Adapt or Dare?
1.1. Accepting to evolve
1.1.1. For a shared Europe
1.1.2. For a real respect of Gaia’s internal rules
1.1.3. Saving the planet, jobs or our civilization?
1.1.4. Going through “a good war”?
1.1.5. Expanding our field of certainty
1.2. Change seen from afar to better understand it
1.2.1. Being an actor in our own novel
1.2.2. The cybernetic futurology approach
1.2.3. The temporality of civilizations
1.3. Known risks of our model
1.3.1. No tolerance thresholds
1.3.2. A specific model for each geopolitical zone
1.3.3. From the Anthropocene to the symbiotic, an opportunity for Europe
1.3.4. Solzhenitsyn syndrome
1.4. Better than a revolution
Chapter 2. Our Heritage of Experience Tested by New Knowledge
2.1. The common good as a new source of prosperity
2.1.1. “Employment and GDP”: words of the 21st century
2.1.2. An inclusive model by necessity
2.1.3. On the 21st floor, take the cultural elevator
2.1.4. Care of our idiom/logobiota
2.1.5. The economy between cooperation and competitiveness
2.1.6. The consequences of this development
2.1.7. Breaking out of the dictatorship of short term
2.2. Liberating values
2.2.1. No longer possessing, but disposing
2.2.2. From consumerism to the search for cooperation
2.2.3. Complementarity, the wealth of the community
2.2.4. Educating for cooperation
2.2.5. Organization: from the pyramid to the organic structure
2.3. Respect for life course
2.3.1. The continuity of love and knowledge
2.3.2. The times of life from the 20th to the 21st centuries
Chapter 3. The Change of Era Beyond Our Will!
3.1. This new era: symbiotic or chaotic?
3.1.1. Overcoming the right/left duality
3.1.2. Revisiting the institutions
3.1.3. The energy of revolt
3.1.4. The time of think tanks
3.1.5. Towards male/female complementarity
3.1.6. Learning transparency in a fuzzy universe
3.2. AI, the eye of Cain and democratic benevolence
3.3. Sovereignty in the 21st century
3.3.1. The layers of power
3.3.2. Power through data
Chapter 4. The Traces of Our Future Inscribed in Our Past
4.1. Controlling your destiny
4.1.1. The invention of the image
4.1.2. Smart, but fragile
4.1.3. Not above the laws of nature
4.2. Creative and responsible
4.2.1. The homeostasis of our democracy
4.2.2. Europe: hierarchical with its kings, but organic with its communities
4.2.3. Towards a cooperative democracy
4.2.4. No more ideology
4.2.5. Escaping the clutches of massive influence
4.2.6. Neither colonizer nor colonized, only responsible and competitive
4.3. World view and transmission of knowledge
4.4. Europe, a civilization in reconstruction?
4.4.1. At the forefront of the need for renewal
4.4.2. Taking into account social creatives
4.4.3. Preparing for change with the right tools
4.4.4. The dangers of a collapse of the West
4.5. More technology, therefore more humanity
4.5.1. Towards a new form of governance
4.5.2. Making society now
4.5.3. The end of one model, the beginning of another
4.5.4. No global without local
4.5.5. Demography, a taboo subject
4.6. Digital technology, a weapon but also a tool
4.6.1. Digitized financial warfare
4.6.2. Influencer wars
4.7. Workaholics forever?
4.7.1. Before sedentarization: to each his own tribe
4.7.2. Since sedentarization: a place for submission
4.8. Sedentarization, spiritual at first
Chapter 5. “To Make Society” Therefore “To Exchange”
5.1. Exchanges and specializations
5.1.1. The end of the fear of missing out?
5.1.2. Strengths and weaknesses of the concept of ownership
5.1.3. Beginning and end of patriarchy?
5.1.4. Exchanging to prosper
5.2. Financial instruments over time
5.2.1. Symbols to record exchanges
5.2.2. Money and financiers
5.2.3. Church/State and social classes
5.2.4. End of social classes?
Part 2. Avenues to be Explored
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 6. The Inevitable Reworking of the Social Pact
6.1. The world of work in revolution
6.1.1. Fewer and better educated citizens
6.1.2. Collapse of the middle class
6.2. Occupation/job and skills/talents/knowledge
6.2.1. Rise of competence
6.2.2. Disappearance of professions and knowledge strategy
6.2.3. Emergence of jobs and networks
6.3. End of the Jules Ferry school of thought
6.3.1. Certification courses
6.3.2. Sloping entry and exit from the labor market, an avenue to be explored
6.3.3. Inspirational heroes
6.3.4. Regulated professions with regulated missions
Chapter 7. New Reward Tools
7.1. The end of liberalist doxa in favor of reciprocity
7.2. Shifting the focus between private property and the commons
7.2.1. Dependence on the productive and the common good
7.2.2. The dual economy: productive and contributory
7.2.3. Basic income: yes, but…
Chapter 8. Smart Currencies
8.1. Institutional money and contributory money
8.2. Monetary biodiversity
8.2.1. Currency diversity as a source of stability
8.2.2. Incentive money: recurrent and melting
8.2.3. Already smart currencies
8.3. Moving to the sandbox
8.3.1. Responding to the collapse of the middle class
8.3.2. Objectives of the multicurrency experiments
8.3.3. Urgency?
8.4. Do not deny the history of our currency
8.4.1. From melting money⁴ to mortgage credit
8.4.2. Central banks
8.4.3. The financing of industry
8.4.4. Conquering finance
8.4.5. End of a certain finance
8.4.6. Pressure, depression, renewal
8.4.7. The dangers of “helicopter currencies”
Chapter 9. The New Priorities
9.1. Return of feminine values
9.2. A different relationship to innovation
9.3. Preparing for the “aftermath” of transnational corporations
9.4. Going digital 0.0
9.5. Data as important as money
9.6. A renewed idea of liberalism
Chapter 10. Transition Without Chaos?
10.1. More complicated than sedentarization
10.2. A global but differentiated shift
10.2.1. Alternately at the forefront of human history
10.2.2. Europe at the forefront of the societal shift
10.3. Productive-contributory: Siamese economies
10.3.1. Civilization’s stampede
10.3.2. From the “middle” to the “active” class
10.3.3. Towards higher levels of satisfaction
10.3.4. Economy at the service of people and the common good
10.3.5. Democratic coordination
10.4. Tasks dedicated to the common good
10.4.1. The different contributory tasks
10.4.2. Empathic tasks
10.4.3. Status of contributory and empathic tasks
10.4.4. All citizens and actors of the economic and social life
Chapter 11. No Societal Transformation Without Digital Sovereignty
11.1. Protecting land, but also souls and knowledge
11.2. The European opportunity
11.3. Data as important as money
11.4. The European digital age of the 21st century
11.4.1. A place for Rina⁵
11.4.2. Platforms and the platform State
11.4.3. The time of digital castles
11.4.4. Providing the means
Conclusion
References
Index
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