| Dr Ervin Laszlo
Co-Founder Evolutionary Research Group, President, Club of
Budapest, Author of over 60 books including the current 'Science
and the Akashic Field'. |
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| A remarkable
collection of insight into what's wrong with today's world and
what would need to be done to put it right, under the covers of
a single volume that's eminently worth reading. |
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| David Woolfson
LLB President of The club of Budapest, Canada'. |
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| In this important
book, Hal Logan provides the reader with an essential 'big
picture' view of the great transition in consciousness that
human beings are collectively experiencing today. 'Beyond
the Crash! Building an Economic & Ecological
Democracy' focuses on the current break-down in the economic
and social systems of the western world. The
interconnectedness of our present world insures that these
break-downs have a global impact. This hopeful book
provides and excellent road map for our times. |
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| Edgar Mitchell
ScD Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences,
Former Astronaut, I Apollo 14 Mission, Author of 'The Way of
the Explorer'. |
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| This book awakens us
to the problems we face daily, living in a nation-state system
that is unable to deal effectively with global warming, or
massive trade imbalances-to the rampant abuses of totally
unregulated off-shore banking, and massive electronic stock
market speculations, and points the way to an evolutionary
world-view that values human development, and acknowledges that
we are all a part of the living Cosmos. |
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| Hazel Henderson
Author, Futurist, author of 'Building a Win-Win World' and
'Planetary Citizenship'. |
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| An important
contribution to forging solutions to the 'global probematique'
identified by the Club of Rome and many others in the
1970's. The time is long overdue to apply the policy
shifts Logan describes so clearly. |
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| Dr Amit Goswami
Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Oregon, author of 'The
Self Aware Universe' and 'The Quantum Doctor'. |
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| Hal Logan's 'Beyond
the Crash! Building and Economic & Ecological
Democracy' is a thought provoking book whose time has
come. Logan talks about the effect on economics of the
paradigm shift in science from the primacy of matter to the
primacy of consciousness with authority and insight.
Anyone interested in seeing an economics with consciousness
should read this book and be enthused. |
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| Dr J. W. Smith
Founder of the Institute of Economic Democracy and the author of
'Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the
Twenty First Century' and 'Economic Democracy'. |
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| Hal Logan has
simplified for us the origins of corporations and how they have
come to dominate all aspects of our culture and personal
lives. He shows us that their world-wide domination of
markets, their never ending demand for ever increasing
profits-frequently at the expense of the environment-which, in
the end, may destroy this living earth which nurtures all life. |
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| Garth Davis MSc.
in International Relations, L.S.E, MA in International
Economics, John Hopkins S.A.I.S, Managing Partner, Private
Equity Firm, 14 years with Scotiabank in Credit Risk Management,
Corporate Finance and Syndications and Merchant Banking.
Presently, Managing Partner, Turtle Creek Private Equity. |
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| This book gives the
common man a decent survey of the literature surrounding several
of the important deficiencies and inadequacies of the current
western capitalist model, and provides the reader with an
individual-specific action plan for a paradigm shift to a more
sustainable model of capitalism that considers profits and costs
in a more holistic method, taking into account social,
environmental, spiritual and community resources. It is a
thought provoking work that has left me looking at our past,
present and future investments through a new and more holistic
filter. It is a must read for any fund manager with a
social conscience. |
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| Dr James Tansey
Professor, Centre for Applied Ethics & Sauder School of
Business, University of British Columbia. |
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| This book is a
wide-ranging commentary on the current state of industrial
capitalism, published by an author who confesses, at the
beginning, to have participated in that system for his whole
career. It is a very well written book, and the author
writes with a strong ethos of integration. There is a
sense that the author has identified the Achilles heel to the
modern capitalist system and he links this both to the dynamic
pathologies of the system as well as to the values that orient
individual participants. It is a book that is accessible
to the general reader and it does not mystify the issues with
abstract theory or social science, focusing instead on clear,
solid reasoning and a wide rang of examples. It is a very
useful book for the general reader and a good introductory book
for university students. |
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| Dr Cliff DuRand
Co-Founder of the Center for Global Justice, Emeritus Professor
of Philosophy, Morgan State University. |
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| Hal
Logan's 'Building an Economic & Ecological Democracy'
is a primer on a broad range of social problems that plague
today's globalizing world: growing inequality and
concentration of wealth and power in transnational corporations,
global climate change, the "wilting nation-state" (as
he calls it), peak oil, the fragile debt-based, speculative
financial system, etc. All of this is viewed through the
lens of a new age consciousness sensitive to the
interconnectedness of all things. Provocative quotations
abound, spliced together with factoids and gems of wisdom.
Logan is a futurist, pointing the direction in which we are
going and where we ought to go. His prescription for the
future depends heavily on two things: a revolution of
consciousness and a reform of corporations to make them more
democratic. |
