European Economic Integration, a value systems perspective. From a presentation made at the 2016 Integral European Conference

1. S A I D E .
D A W L A B A N I
K E Y N O T E
M A Y 7 , 2 0 1 6
A VALUE SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE
O n C a p i t a l i s m & E u r o p e a n E c o n o m i c I n t e g r a t i o n

2. FIRST
SOCIETALCAPITAL
THE MEMENOMIC SPIRAL
A Gravesian View on Global Productive Output
2 - 3 %
4 - 7 %
1 4 - 1 7 %
5 0 - 5 5 %
1 0 - 12 %
5 - 7 %
FINANCIALCAPITAL
HUMANCAPITAL
TOWARDMORECONSCIOUSCAPITAL

3. EU ROADMAP FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
The Long Road to a Common Market
EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND
OBJECTIVE 1. CONVERGENCE:
• Modernizing and diversifying economic structures
• Creating sustainable jobs
• Stimulating economic growth
OBJECTIVE 2. REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS:
• Innovation and knowledge economy
• Environmental cleanup & energy efficiency.
• Access to transport and telecommunications
OBJECTIVE 3. TERRITORIAL COOPERATION:
• Cross-border economic, social, and environmental activities
• Transnational cooperation, including bilateral cooperation
• Inter-regional cooperation.
1.
BUILDING NEW BLUE
INSITUTIONS FOR A
MARKET-BASED
ECONOMY AT THE
NATIONAL LEVEL
2.
ADDING ROBUST BLUE
ORANGE CAPACITIES
FOR A MARKET-BASED
ECONOMY AT THE
NATIONAL LEVEL
3.
BECOMING A RESILIENT
MEMBER OF A CONTINENT
WIDE BLUE-ORANGE-GREEN
COMMON MARKET

4. 1920s 30s 40s 50s 60s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s-
M
E
M
E
C
O
M
P
L
E
X
I
T
Y
HIGH
LOW
MODERN HISTORY OF THE U.S & THE U.K ECONOMIES
Market Provides Best Solutions

5. 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990s 2000s 2010s-
v
M
E
M
E
C
O
M
P
L
E
X
I
T
Y
HIGH
LOW
CONVERGENCE:
MARSHALL PLAN:
BUILDING NEW
MARKET-BASED
BLUE FOUNDATION
LUDWIG
ERHARD:
PACIFYING
MONOPOLIES
& OLIGARCHIES.
INTRODUCING
ECONOMETRICS
KARL SCHILLER:
THE RISE OF
KEYNESIAN
ECONOMICS
HELMUT
KOHL:
PRIVATIZA-
TION
REUNIFI-
CATION
GOOD FOR
W. GERMAN
ORANGE
NO NEW
MARKET
BLUE
FOR
EAST
THE
NOT-SO-
GROOVY 1970s
THE FALL OF THE
BERLIN WALL & THE
RISE OF THE BERLIN MALL
MODERN HISTORY OF GERMANY’S SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY
Balancing The Material and the Social Provides Best Solutions

6. 1990 1995 2004 2008 2011 2015
M
E
M
E
C
O
M
P
L
E
X
I
T
Y
HIGH
LOW
HUNGARY, THE GOOD EXAMPLE
HOW TO INTEGRATE CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE INTO COMMON MARKET
• 1995 OECD MEMEBERSHIP
• 2004 EU MEMBERSHIP
• 2011 NEW CONSTITUTION
PRIVATIZATION.
REFORMS IN
GOVRNMENT,
TAX CODE,
FISCAL POLICY,
EDUCATION,
INFRASTRUCTURE,
BANKING, TRADE
POLICIES
CONVERGENCE: BUILDING
NEW, NATIONALLY-
ORIENTED MARKET-BASED
BLUE FOUNDATION

7. 1940 1950 1974 2000 2008 2015
M
E
M
E
C
O
M
P
L
E
X
I
T
Y
HIGH
LOW
GREECE, HOW NOT TO INTEGRATE
NO
REFORMS IN GOVRNMENT, TAX
CODE, FISCAL POLICY,
BANKING,
TRADE POLICIES TILL 2004
CONVERGENCE?
WHAT IS THAT?
NO
BUILDING OF NEW, NATIONALLY-
ORIENTED, MARKET-BASED
BLUE FOUNDATION

8. THE IMPORTANCE OF BLUE/ORANGE
COVER
TO EUROPEAN FUTURE, PEACE AND PROSPERITY
More Developed Region
(Per Capita GDP ≥ 90% EU Average).
Transition Region
(GDP 75-90% of Average).
Less Developed Region
(GDP under 75% of Average)
Source: European Commission Directorate -General for Regional Policy
EU ECONOMIC POLICY REGIONAL
CLASSIFICATION 2014-2020
Of the 17 EU member countries &
regions designated as less developed,
6 countries earn less than 50% of EU
average, 5 earn less than 60% of EU average.
“Once you’re in Orange, you have a portfolio to protect. Ideological and dogmatic Blue
from the past begins to disappear making way for a peaceful and prosperous future.”
--Dr. Don E. Beck

9. When it comes to economic policy, only money matters
-- Milton Friedman
The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent
virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism It’s just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Show me a Capitalist, and I’ll show you a Bloodsucker
-- Malcolm X
Capitalism has defeated Communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy
-- David Korten
Instead of looking to defeat one ideology so another can rise, we should be defeating
all ideologies so a fuller understanding of humanity can prevail.
-- The MEMEnomics Framework
Capitalism and the Future of Humanity; Changing
The Nature of the Debate
The best way to destroy the Capitalist system is to debauch its currency
--John Maynard Keynes

10. End of Ideology & the Rise of the Collaborative Commons
THE LONG JOURNEY: How Capitalism Won the Battle of Ideologies & Planted
The Seeds of its Own Demise
INDUSTRIAL
CAPITALISM
SERVICE
CAPITALISM
FINANCIAL
CAPITALISM
INFORMATION
CAPITALISM

11. The Post-ism Future: From Centralized Scarcity
to Networked Abundance
A: Characteristics of the Emergent System:
1. The Universally educated human is its smallest Holon
2. Transparent & Systemically Disruptive. No industry
or country is safe.
3. Collaborative, non-Linear, Highly Complex.
4. Exponential change is the new norm.
5. Highly Networked with Endless points of input.
B: The Disruption has begun: The Info-dustrial Evolution.
1. The Automation of Utility:
a. The end of quantifiable work
b. The Rise of The Internet of Things
2. Advanced Robotics, Zero Marginal Cost, 3-D printing.
3. End of Carbon Energy grid, Rise of Renewal Energy Networks
4. The Maturation of “Network BLUE”: Bitcoin, Blockchain 2.0
5. Wise Governance, Decentralized never fully Autonomous.

12. “Today, the battle of economic philosophies is between Hierarchy and Network.
Should the network win, it will spell the end of Capitalism.”
-- Paul Mason , author
POSTCAPITALSIM
Well-known Marxist
The MEMEnomics View:
“The end of Centralized ideologies, including Capitalism
begins by the healthy integration of Individualistic and Communal
values, consciously absorbing each other into an Intelligent Network.
It is more Allometric than it is Holocratic. It preserves the high functionality
of its different sectors that create innovation while relying on the network for
equitable and fair distribution.”