http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com Imants Kins blogs about an enquiry grounded in the biggest possible perspective on human life into economic theory and to see what will emerge in terms of economic behavior and structures. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:25:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   It was revealing to search out the dictionary definitions of efficiency. Oxford concise Science Dictionary: a measure of performance of a machine, engine etc being the ratio of the energy or power it delivers to the energy or power fed to it. In general the efficiency of a machine varies with ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/efficiency-continued-2/ The theory in the EU was everyone would abide by the rules and in acting responsibly the weaker states would put in place the necessary conditions to allow for sustained economic growth to take root. The expansion to 27 states was based on this assumption and of course the EU was ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/europe-union-germany-and-russia-union/ I have spoken about the how the word efficiency is a human construct. In today's developed world,  two major and opposing views on efficiency: the political and business culture is all about efficiency as the shortest distance between two points ie as a straight line under all circumstances.  The other view ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/efficiency-continued/   Shingo Nomura’s foundation is called the Center for Global Action and Sustainable Development (CGASD). Its members are over 20 of Japan’s leading specialists in engineering, architecture, ocean research and engineering, agriculture, education  and city planning  join the venture donating their time, expertise and patents. The CGASD will move its head ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/creating-creating-the-world%e2%80%99s-first-floating-country-kiribati-part-2/     I want to thank all those generous people who have taken the time to send me responses to my website and its posts. They have inspired me to do more posts more regularly and to add more of my real life experiences into the posts. I have been overseas on ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/creating-the-world%e2%80%99s-first-floating-country-part-1/   The use of the word efficiency is starting to appear everywhere. This week I came across three examples: Harvard University Professor Marc Hauser writing for The American Scientist in its September 2009 special issue on ‘Understanding origins’ referred in his article on ‘The origins of the mind’ to human beings ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/efficiency-informed-by-spirit/ In 2004 I gave a talk at the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) in Perth Western Australia on the four key driving forces in the world. Looking back on this talk I can see that these forces have intensified since 2004.  Three are big wave forces and one is a ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/what-tectonic-trends-drive-the-world/ In the previous blog on efficiency we saw that this concept has become one of the most powerful values in economics and in our society today. One could argue that efficiency is an evolutionary trait that is linked to our amazing ability to survive as a species in at times ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/evolutionary-efficiency/ What is consciousness and why is our urgent contemplation of its nature such a vital catalyst in our transformation- not just for our survival but for our evolutionary leap into a higher stage of development as a species? Edgar Mitchell was the sixth astronaut to walk on the moon and founder ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/what-is-consciousness/ [caption id="attachment_156" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="Life & Leisure Sophisticated Traveller Magazine"][/caption] Travel companies claim to have created a new niche market segment – responding to a new and growing travel demographic that wants ‘authentic’ personal experiences. These tourists want to interact with local people, participate in activities and not just be ... http://www.theevolutionaryeconomist.com/searching-for-soul/