Anthology of Noonomy: Fourth Technological Revolution and Its Economic, Social and Humanitarian Consequences: Technology and Socio-economic Progress: Traps and Opportunities for the Future

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Contributors
Introduction: What Is Noonomy?
1 Civilization Faced with Crisis
2 Change the Development Model
3 Research Methodology: Critical Role of Material Production
4 Technological Modes
5 Upcoming Industrial Revolution: Transition to nis.2
6 Civilisational Crossroads
7 Economic Society Deadlocked
8 Simulative Needs and Financial Capital
9 Through Socialization — to Homo Culturalis
10 Transition to Noonomy
11 Evolution of Ownership Relations
12 Role of Humans in Noo-production
13 Nature of Human Activity and Nature of Wants
14 Principle of Solidarism
15 Four Vectors of Change
References
Part 1 Global Transformations of the Twenty-First Century and the Genesis of Noonomy
Chapter 1 Noonomy as the Core of the Formation of New Technological Mode and Global Economic Order
1 Basic Definitions
2 World Crisis as a Process of Change of Technological and World Economic Orders
3 New World Order: Scenarios for Transition to Noonomy
4 Noonomy of the Future World Economic Order
References
Chapter 2 Noonomy, Globalization and the Pandemic
1 Introduction
2 The Planning System
3 Simulacra, Superfluities and Frills
4 A Tripartite World Economy
5 Covid-19, Economic Structure and Economic Models
6 The Covid-19 Crisis in the United States
7 The Pandemic in Asia: The Case of Intermediate Manufacturing Powers
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 Contradictions in Technological and Socio-economic Transformations: The New Role of Knowledge on the Way towards Noonomy
References
Chapter 4 Intelligence Economy as a Form of Noonomy and Its Economic and Social Impact
1 The Concept of Intelligence Economy
1.1 The Definition of Intelligence Economy
1.2 Basic Characteristics of Intelligence Economy
2 Debates in Western Academia on Intelligence Economy and Its Economic and Social Impact
2.1 The Question of Exploitation in the Non-material Labor that Drives Intelligence Economy
2.2 The Question on the Impact of Intelligence Economy upon the Law of Value
2.3 The Question on the Disappearance of the Proletariat
3 Intelligence Still Remains within the Sphere of Political Economy
3.1 Immaterial Labor in Intelligence Economy Has the Material Attribute of Labor, Which Is in Line with the Explication of Productive Labor in Political Economy
3.2 Intelligence Economy Has Not Changed the Labor Theory of Value and the Theory of Surplus Value in Marxism
3.3 Intelligence Economy and Its Economic and Social Impact Are Conditioned by the Social System in Which It Operates
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Part 2 Development Strategy and Noonomy
Chapter 5 Mental Objects as a Productive Force: A Contribution to the Critique of Noonomy
1 Introduction
2 The Treviso Arithmetic: An Introduction to Mental Technology
3 The Use of Mental Objects
4 Is There a Successor to Industrial Production?
5 Creativity, Culture and the Limits of Mechanism
6 Creative Labour as a Productive Force
7 Capitalism and the Future of Mental Production
References
Chapter 6 Predictive Potential of Noonomy to Justify the Development Strategy
References
Chapter 7 Science and Technologies: Property and Public Progress through the Prism of the Cuban Experience
1 Problem Statement
2 Challenges for the Cuban Society: Answers for Cuba and the Entire World
3 Cuba 2018: What May Come Next?
References
Part 3 Noonomy: Reflections of Political Economy
Chapter 8 Noonomy and Geopolitical Economy: Natural Allies
1 Noonomy
2 Geopolitical Economy
References
Chapter 9 Evolution of Political Economy Subject and Method at the Dawn of Digitalization
1 Target Setting
2 Political Economy as a Consistent Theory
3 The Essence of the Evolution of Subject and Method
4 The Economic Rationale of Digitalization
5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 10 Noonomy in the Transition to a Post-capitalist Society: Perspectives from the Global South
1 The Second Wave Is Bringing the Economic System to Collapse
2 Alternatives in the Head
3 Noonomy – an Icebreaker for a New Economic Paradigm
4 Strategies Waiting for Their Implementation
5 The Second Wave of People’s Movements
References
Postscript
Index