Description
Book SynopsisOmniconomics shows how we can make human society intrinsically sustainable, harmonically embedded in nature, with the help of a completely new approach in which traditional economics is transformed.
Citing the fallacies of existing economic approaches as directly responsible for many of the environmental and social threats faced by society today, Niko Roorda presents a new, interdisciplinary science: omniconomics. This framework has its foundations in an innovative, joined-up approach, in which all aspects of the natural and social sciences are inextricably linked. It will better allow for new solutions to tackling urgent issues, including climate change, deforestation, environmental and economic inequality, dehumanization, and crumbling social cohesion.
Inspiring new thinking, this book aims to:
- Inspire a public, scientific and political debate about the role of present-day economics, its status as no more than a protoscience, and the consequences fo
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"This is an important contribution to thoughtful engagement with sustainability in a context of major economic reformation. The author presents a breakthrough concept, underlined with engaging pedagogy, that identifies sustainability fault lines while suggesting comprehensive ideas to address systemic shortcomings. Omniconomics is a very current and truly innovative book!"
Charles Hopkins, UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability, York University, Canada
"It is no longer difficult to analyze the shortcomings of economics as a protoscience. One only has to look at the environmental destruction, cultural devastation, economic inequality, and social agony it has wrought. The challenge is to imagine what can replace it and guide us to deep intrinsic sustainability in balance with nature. Niko Rooda has done it again— given us a theoretical and imaginative update on sustainable development and provided us a much-needed critique of economics at the same time! May this sustainability narrative of new systematics help to replace the old thinking."
Peter Blaze Corcoran, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies and Environmental Education, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida
Table of Contents
1. The Problem and the Plan Part I: The Problem: Economics is not Science 2. Towards the Roots 3. Four Spheres 4. Intrinsic Sustainability 5. Impetus Words 6. Protoscience 7. Myths 8. The Unsustainable Success of Economics 9. Homo Solitarius, the Lonesome Human 10. Collapse 11. Proto-economics Part II: The Plan: Omniconomics, the New Science 12. Buying Time 13. Understanding 14. Science Creation 15. The Eightfold Path to Science 16. Characteristics of Omniconomic Science 17. The Complex Omniconomic World 18. Tegular Unification 19. On the Road to Success: Evolution towards Sustainability 20. Participatory Democracy: Society directs Science
