Humane Civilization - Contents/Links

Humane Civilization -- A Draft Manuscript
humane Zivilsation / civilización humana / civilisation humaine

Contents / Links

Possible Working Titles:

Ethical Economic, Legal, Political and Social Institutions: Models for Change: An Outline for reforming the obsolete tenets of modern civilizations
OR
Meeting Human Needs: Ethically Reforming our Economy and Government
OR
Beyond Liberal and Conservative - Vision of a Peaceful Revolution

A DRAFT MANUSCRIPT by Heinz Aeschbach, MD, Austin, Texas 2008/'09/'10, and other articles [more to be added].

Contents    last revised/edited 12/2010

Contents
Title Page / Preface

Chapter 1 - Basic Economic Issues; Misconceptions in Economic Thinking
1.0 Introduction and Summary [last revised/edited 11/2010]
1.1 Modern Economic Institutions: a Short Historical Perspective
1.2 Human Nature and Economic Behaviors
1.3 Money
1.4 Interests and Investment Earnings
1.5 Economic Progress
1.6 Economic Units: Structure, Seize, and Interactions
1.7 Economic Goals, Economic Stability

Chapter 2 - Problems of Modern Democratic Institutions and Legal Systems
2.0 Summary
2.1 Some Major Problems of Modern Cultures
2.2 Corruption and Terrorism
2.3 Multicultural Communities
2.4 Problematic Political Institutions
2.5 Adversarial Legal Systems

Chapter 3 - Philosophical and Scientific Basis of Political Thoughts; Natural Ethics
3.0 Summary
3.1 Introductory Thoughts on Human Nature, Ethics, and Religion
3.2 Human Nature
3.3 Human Instincts and Culture; Psychiatric Problems
3.4 Natural Ethics
3.5 Ethics and Political Institutions
3.6 Quality of Life: Simplicity, Comfort versus Pain, and Meaning in Life

Chapter 4 - Model Framework of Social, Political, Legal, and Economic Institutions
4.0 Summary
4.1 Utopias Versus Realistic Model Institutions
4.2 Economic Institutions: Money Supply and Industries
4.3 System of Taxation; Minimum Basic Income; Incentives for and Limitations on Economic Activities
4.4 Social Organization
4.5 Improved Democratic Governance
4.6 Ethics, Psychology, and the Legal System
4.7 International Organizations

Chapter 5 - Moving Towards the Proposed Changes
5.1 Local and Global Action
5.2 Issues in Economic Transition
5.3 Transforming Social and Political Institutions
5.4 Advancing Ethical Standards
5.5 Changing Legal Systems
5.6 Some Issues of Transition in Poor Regions and Areas with High Unemployment

Appendices
Appendix A - Poverty and Hunger in Economic Theories
Appendix B - Basic Philosophy; Inherent Conflicts and Peace
Appendix C - Development of Ethics and Religions
Appendix D - Further Thoughts on Natural Ethics and Human Nature
Appendix E - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Links of Interest

Addiction & Psychotherapy Services
The clinic of Heinz and Margaret Aeschbach (http://www.austinmethadone.com)

Political actions:
change.org
http://humanrights.change.org/petitions/view/israel-palestine_one-state_solution_2

Biology, evolution:
www.richarddawkins.net

Human nature, natural human behavior:
http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/institutes/urbanethology/staff/eibl-eibesfeldt.html
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
[Austrian ethologist who studied animal behaviors, earlier with Konrad Lorenz; later researched human
behavior]

Human nature, natural human behavior, specifically regarding inborn morality:
Marc D. Hauser
[Author of Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal sense of Right and Wrong]
"The Moral Instinct"
[article by Steven Pinker in The New York Times]

Human nature, natural human behavior, brain / rational thinking / emotions:
Antonio Damasio (www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=27)
Dan Arieli (http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/)
[Author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions]
Norman Doidge (http://www.normandoidge.com/normandoidge/MAIN.html)
[Author of The Brain that Changes Itself]
Jill Bolte Taylor
[Author of My Stroke of Insight]
Gerd Gigerenzer (bio at Edge: The Third Culture)
[Author of Gut Feelings]
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
[Authors of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]

Economics, general, problems with modern capitalism, alternate models:
cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/samuelson.htm
Joseph Stiglitz
[Author of Making Globalization Work, Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development,
  and Globalization and Its Discontents]
Open Society Foundations
[George Soros is author of On Globalization and The Age of Fallibility]
Hernando DeSoto and www.delboysandbox.com
[Author of The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World and The Mystery of Capital]
Muhammad Yunus and www.grameen-info.org
[Author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty and Creating A World Without
Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism]
Peter Barnes
[Author of Capitalism 3.0 with Maude Barlow, Rachel Breen]
Paul Hawken
[Author of Natural Capitalism]
Kevin Phillips
[Author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism and
American Theocracy]

Economics, future and environmental concerns, Third World:
James Martin
[Founded the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at the University of Oxford, then the
extraordinary 21st Century School]
Vandana Shiva
[Author of Earth Democracy: Sustainability and Peace, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, Stolen
Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and
Development, as well as other books / articles]
Jeffrey D. Sachs (www.earth.columbia.edu)
[Author of Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, and The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities
for our Time]
Bill McKibben
[Author of Deep Economy]
Amartya Sen (http://www.justpeace.org/sen.htm)
[Author of Development as Freedom]

Specific human rights issues:
Women's issues in Third World:
Half the Sky
[Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, authors of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for
Women Worldwide]
Female Genital Mutilation (and www.childinfo.org/fgmc.html, www.forwarduk.org.uk and
   http://www.target-human-rights.com/index.php?lang=en [Ruediger Nehberg, Germany]
AHA Foundation [Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Author of Infidel, The Caged Virgin]
Books and articles by: Fran P. Hosken, Waris Dirie, Faduma Korn

Genocide and 'Eliminationism':
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
[Author of Hittler's Willing Executioners and Worse than War]

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