Everyone hungry for positive social change should read this @tvolmag series of conversations that I organized with support from @KauffmanFDN. evolution-institute.org/third-way/. Its thesis is amazingly simple: Forget about laissez faire and centralized planning--the only way to ...(1/9)
...accomplish positive social change is by a process of cultural evolution in which all three ingredients--the target of selection, variation oriented around the target, and replication of best practices, are managed with systemic goals in mind. Each conversation...(2/9)
...makes this point for a different category of social change, starting with Pragmatism, which was directly inspired by Darwin and had a huge impact on American progressivism and foreign policy oriented toward global welfare: evolution-institute.org/pragmatism-as-…...(3/9)
Conversation #2, on governance at the national scale, documents the failures of BOTH socialist and capitalist experiments of the past. The nations that function best have converged upon the 3rd Way, often from different cultural starting points: evolution-institute.org/socialism-capi… (4/9).
Conversation #3 reviews economic schools of thought spanning the range from centralized planning to laissez faire. There are precursors to the 3rd Way but a mature approach requires a combination of complex systems & evolutionary theory that is new. evolution-institute.org/the-third-way-… (5/9).
Do you think you know about Libertarianism, represented by figures such as Friedrich Hayek and institutions such as @mercatus at @GeorgeMasonU? Conversation #4 with @PeterBoettke might surprise you. evolution-institute.org/the-role-of-th… (6/9).
Urban planning is another category of social change that has spanned the range from laissez faire to centralized planning, with the so-called Smart Cities movement currently in vogue. No amount of tech or big data will be enough without the 3rd way. evolution-institute.org/urban-planning… (7/9)
Future conversations will cover the Internet Age, development efforts, the last 10,000 years of cultural evolution, systems engineering, the so-called Nordic model of national governance, and entrepreneurship as typically imagined. In each and every case...(8/9)
..positive change requires a managed process of cultural evolution with systemic goals in mind. Visit the landing page for an overview and opportunity to join discussion groups so that you can become involved in evolving your, and our, future: evolution-institute.org/third-way/ (9/9)
