slides for a short talk at the Growth and Jobs Summit.
NOTE THAT THIS NOT AN OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE REFLECTION GROUP, BUT PRIVATE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR.
Wendy McGuinness shared her insights from the McGuinness Institute CEO research trip to the 2018 OECD Forum at a discussion even on 26 June 2018. This year’s OECD Forum focused on three interconnected issues: international co-operation, inclusive growth and digitalisation. Wendy also touched on the content of two Executive Education Courses, ‘Global Macroeconomic Challenges’ and ‘Behavioural Economics and the Modern Economy’, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
PARATUS Europe event: "The Euro Crisis, Genesis and Evolution of a Drama - Understanding it First Hand". The event took place on Thursday, April 5, 2012, at the SHERATON Northbrook Hotel, Northbrook, Illinois, USA.
Slideshows about nonviolence and nonviolent resolution of conflicts, economic alternatives, ecology, social change, spirituality : www.irnc.org , Slideshows in english
Agriculture, industry, international trade, territorial planning, fight against exclusion, education, defence, international relations, rediscovering wisdom
Wendy McGuinness shared her insights from the McGuinness Institute CEO research trip to the 2018 OECD Forum at a discussion even on 26 June 2018. This year’s OECD Forum focused on three interconnected issues: international co-operation, inclusive growth and digitalisation. Wendy also touched on the content of two Executive Education Courses, ‘Global Macroeconomic Challenges’ and ‘Behavioural Economics and the Modern Economy’, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
PARATUS Europe event: "The Euro Crisis, Genesis and Evolution of a Drama - Understanding it First Hand". The event took place on Thursday, April 5, 2012, at the SHERATON Northbrook Hotel, Northbrook, Illinois, USA.
Slideshows about nonviolence and nonviolent resolution of conflicts, economic alternatives, ecology, social change, spirituality : www.irnc.org , Slideshows in english
Agriculture, industry, international trade, territorial planning, fight against exclusion, education, defence, international relations, rediscovering wisdom
'The Global Crisis, the Political Economy of State Restructuring, and the Campaign for Transformative Social Protection', presentation at the Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF) Conference on Southeast Asia Regional Roundtable Strategising Meeting: Building Southeast Asia Peoples' Agenda on Transformative Social Protection as a Democratic and Human Rights Response to the Crisis, Asian Institute of Management, Makati City, Philippines, 12 October 2009
Presentation given yesterday to high-school youth at the Maria-Theresia Gymnasium in Munich, Germany. It shows why despite all crises there is a lot of hope, which comes from higher levels of consciousness that follows the New Age movement of the 1960s. It is the Integral Movement lead by my very dear friend and one of the most brilliant minds on this planet today Ken Wilber. It integrates humanity's value system, called by Plato, the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
'The Global Crisis, the Political Economy of State Restructuring, and the Campaign for Transformative Social Protection', presentation at the Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF) Conference on Southeast Asia Regional Roundtable Strategising Meeting: Building Southeast Asia Peoples' Agenda on Transformative Social Protection as a Democratic and Human Rights Response to the Crisis, Asian Institute of Management, Makati City, Philippines, 12 October 2009
Presentation given yesterday to high-school youth at the Maria-Theresia Gymnasium in Munich, Germany. It shows why despite all crises there is a lot of hope, which comes from higher levels of consciousness that follows the New Age movement of the 1960s. It is the Integral Movement lead by my very dear friend and one of the most brilliant minds on this planet today Ken Wilber. It integrates humanity's value system, called by Plato, the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
Eton College Forum on the Global Financial Crisistutor2u
The title of this event is ‘No More Business As Usual: How to Avoid Another Financial Crash.’ The 2008 crisis marked a sea-change point.It was a fa ilure on three counts: 1. A failure of oversight from Governments and Central Banks alike, 2. A failure of modeling in not being able to predict the crash and 3. A failure of ideology. Underpinning the crisis was the fundamentally flawed neo-liberal ideologue which has dominated main-stream economic thinking.
Challenges in the adoption of bim in europeŽiga Turk
6th International BIM Technical Symposium on the Application of Digital Constructionin Real Estate, Design and Construction & International Forum on BIM DevelopmentShanghai, China, Sept 24-26, 2019
Strategic Importance of Communicating (in) ScienceŽiga Turk
Innovation and creativity, science and technology are believed to be the key competitive advantages of nations in a globlized world and a key strategic asset of nations, states and individuals.
The author believes that it was the innovation in communication that was instrumental for the flourishing of Europe in the past 500 years. The start of the dominance of Europe in science, technology and later in economy and politics coincides with a breakthrough in communication - with the invention of paper and print.
Today were are witnessing another communication revolution - related to the internet and the Web. It offers immense opportunities for scientific communication, for communicating about science, as well as dangers and challenges.
To some extent this is reflected in in the key European strategic document - the Lisbon strategy but more is required in order to capitalize on the potential of human resources in Europe.
Can we use GDP to measure the economy of meaning. My talk at the OECD / SURS Round Table on the Measurement and Use of Data on Social Progress and People’s Well-Being
Slides presenting the report of the Gonzale Wise Men Group - Project Europe 2030 - in a short and dense format. The main message being the need for a common political market. Note that this is author's take on the issue and not necessarily a fair summary of the report. Presented at European Forum Alpbach, August 31, 2010
Europe 2030: Better use of the Citizens, the Sun and the UnionŽiga Turk
Published in European View Volume 9, Number 1, 79-92, DOI: 10.1007/s12290-010-0117-3.
Submitted April 14th 2010.
Summary: On its continent, the EU has been a success. But the new challenges are mostly global: rise of Asia, climate change, end of industrial age, information revolution and population ageing. To address these efficiently the Union should draw strength from its values of rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality, care for people and the environment. In the years to come, it could rely more on the three key resources: the people, the sun and the Union. People are becoming the most important economic resource. Europe will not have the quantity, it will have to compete hard on the quality and do much more to empower the people. The sun will be the center of the 3rd industrial revolution towards a carbon neutral Europe. This will take massive R&D effort, but also the need to enable Europen solutions – by creating the technical and legal infrastructure for a common European energy market and a common energy policy. The Union has been perfected through generations. Its strength is in its openness for enlargements and readiness to deepening. Rather than going through another institutional change, it should learn to use the tools it has, to deepen the common market and extend it to the vital new and modern areas of competition. The Union should become a player on the global stage and work towards a multipolar, peaceful, orderly world. A key obstacle to leveraging the Union as a tool to address the issues that worry the Europeans is the non functioning of the common European political market.
Construction IT Research - Climate Change AgendaŽiga Turk
Addressing climate change is one of the key technological challenges of the present and
the near future. With about a half of the energy being used in the built environment and
with a huge proportion being used by the transportation sector, the construction
industry will be a very important player. The paper presents the general context of the
climate change discussion. It identifies construction industry as a double winner in this
process, potentially benefiting both from the changes in nature as well as from
governments' measures. There are many things construction industry can accomplish
without much additional research, even more, however, if it moves beyond the current
state of the art, particularly in building automation and the use of ICT throughout the
building's life cycle. The paper concludes by identifying the emerging research and
development agenda in the field constriction informatics.
published in: in B.H.V. Topping, L.F. Costa Neves, R.C. Barros, (Editors), "Trends in Civil and Structural
Engineering Computing", Saxe-Coburg Publications, Computational Science, Engineering & Technology
Series, ISSN 1759-3158; Stirlingshire, UK, Chapter 19, pp 413-423, 2009. doi:10.4203/csets.22.19
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
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An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
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3. Let's reinvent the continent
§ oops, sorry, the
wrong continent!
§ lets set up a
committee or
two!
§ Reflection Group
§ Future of Lisbon
Strategy
3
4. 2007 … in the good
old times …
§ EU expansion, Euro a success
§ Lisbon Treaty on track/signed,
institutional matters settled
§ economic upswing, in part attributed to
the Lisbon Strategy
§ soft power Europe - leading global
climate change agenda
§ Europe to lead the globalization
4
5. The sky was the limit
§ Mark Leonhard: quot;we will see the emergence of a New
European Century. Not because Europe will run the world as
an empire, but because the European way of doing things
will have become the worldsquot;.
§ Jeremy Rifkin: quot;Much of the world is going dark, leaving
many human beings without clear direction. The European
Dream is a beacon of light in the troubled world.quot;
§ long term visions: a proposal for a group of wise men to
think about the future of Europe
§ economic, social and environmental strategy: Lisbon
strategy 3.0
5
6. Reflection Group
§ to identify the key issues and developments which the Union was
likely to face and to analyze how these might be addressed.
– strengthening and modernizing the European model of economic success
and social responsibility,
– enhancing the competitiveness of the EU,
– the rule of law,
– sustainable development as a fundamental objective of the European
Union,
– global stability,
– migration,
– energy and climate protection,
– and the fight against global insecurity, international crime and terrorism.
§ particular attention should be given to ways of better reaching out
to citizens and addressing their expectations and needs.
§ headed by former Spanish PM Felipe Gonzales
§ www.ReflectionGroup.eu
6
7. Lisbon Strategy 2010-2020
§ The European Council (March 2008) stresses that a
continued EU-level commitment to
– structural reforms and
– sustainable development and
– social cohesion
§ will be necessary after 2010 in order to lock in the progress
achieved by the renewed Lisbon Strategy for growth and
jobs.
§ The European Council therefore invites
– the Commission,
– the Council and
– the National Lisbon coordinators
§ to start reflecting on the future of the Lisbon strategy in the
post-2010 period.
7
8. 2009 Crises
§ institutional crisis
– treaty stuck in Ireland
§ climate crisis
– somehow forgotten, quot;temperatures flat since
2001, but warming will returnquot;
§ financial, then economic crisis, possible
spillover to political crisis
8
9. The triggers and deeper
reasons
§ triggers
– many living over their means,
– lack of information in the financial market,
– regulation that did not compensate for that,
– risk aversion and distribution,
– market distortions,
– poor decisions made in the financial sector
§ deeper reasons
–…
9
10. 21th century structural shifts
/ undercurrents
§ shifting of center of gravity of global economy
– after 500 years re-emergence of China as #1 economy
§ conceptual economy
– quot;almost all of the real-value-added increases in
our output reflect the embodiment of ideasquot;
§ peak oil and possible 3rd industrial revolution
– 100 years since the 2nd (oil)
§ other scientific progress
– biotech, medicine, genetics, nanotechnology
10
11. Perfect storm
§ structural shifts + crisis =
§ instability, discontinuity, future quot;not like the past
but betterquot; any more
§ destructive questioning the proven patterns of
the past (capitalism, markets, democracy, greed
…) without offering workable alternatives
§ looking for silver bullets and utopian regressions:
government control, protectionism, redistribution
of wealth …
11
12. Threats and opportunities of
the storm
threats opportunities
§ not good for Europe § government
interventions are
– common market is the
acceptable, even
bedrock of European
integration desirable
§ not good for business § weaknesses are
at all! exposed
§ not good for doing § there is motive for
long term strategies reform
12
13. Responses
§ tactical response: addressing the symptoms
with stimuli, bailouts, confidence building,
cheap oil … sooner or later they would get
traction
§ strategic response: addressing the structural
shifts, the weaknesses exposed by crisis
– Asia, automation, abundance
13
14. The crisis of abundance
§ economy can stand still, § luddites: the end of
because we can live work
without new stuff for a
§ communists: Give
year or more
money to the poor that
§ fewer and fewer workers
will spend it
needed to make the stuff
§ environmentalists:
we need
Spend money to save
the planet
§ snobs: Sell meaning,
brand, content, design
… not function
14
15. Crisis is deep
§ we will have to do a little bit of everything
§ conceptual economy
– intellectual property rights or another pattern
of innovation
• quot;Should the law have protected Newton's and
Leibniz's claims in the same way that we do those
of owners of land?quot;
– talent, human resources
– innovation, creativity … culture, values
15
17. … and Conceptual Economy is
Europe's Game
§ the future is bright
17
18. In conclusion
§ the crisis is deep and serious, but this too will pass
§ there are plenty of challenges, big picture issues, stuff that
matters (care for the people, care for the nature)
§ short term action must not play against long term structural
shifts
§ build on what has been good and what has worked to
create enormous prosperity, a long period of growth and
peace
§ an EU reform strategy is welcome - Brussels can push for
the right thing not for the popular thing
§ create mechanisms that turn good ideas into action
18
19. On a rough sea you must
keep an eye on the horizon
because the sky is the limit
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