GLOBAL PROCESSES AND THEIR DYNAMICS: TWO PARADIGMS OF DEVELOPMENT
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2011, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The article substantiates the thesis that the outlines of the future and present can be made visible and comprehensible by applying the author’s findings – that is, the new meth-odology for cognition of regularities in the human community development. This methodol-ogy made it possible to define that there have been and are only two paradigms of the hu-man system development in the entire multi-century course of the human community development. Cycles, crises, chaos and all negative phenomena are nothing else but natural products of the second, indirect paradigm of development. The new model of life organiza-tion at each local level is at the same time the former, first development paradigm, based on the direct interconnection between production and consumption of specific human beings, but raised onto the new high-tech level. Practical realization of this model is the only feasible precondition for the transition to sustainable and crisis-free development
Authors and Affiliations
Valentina M. Bondarenko
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