Reshaping the world economy: a history of the Uruguay Round and Traders in a brave new world: the Uruguay Round and the future of the international system

1996 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-797
Author(s):  
David Henderson
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
New World ◽  
Uruguay Round ◽  
International System ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brave New World

scholarly journals Humans and humanity at a crossroads, reading Huxley’s brave new world in light of harari’s homo deus

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-126
Author(s):  
Reimundus Raymond Fatubun
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Lower Castes ◽  
History Book

We don't know where humanity is going. It's challenging to keep up with the rapid advancements in science and technology. In real life, both true and fictional 'truths' play important roles. Huxley's utopian/dystopian novel Brave New World (BNW) depicts a possible future for humanity through his description of a society organized and controlled through the use of science. A contemporary history book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (HD), also discusses the potential of humanity facing extinction in the future. This discussion employs HD to shed light on BNW, using Marxist and New Historicist arguments. Its goals are to analyze the irony in the works, the threat to invention and creativity, oligarchy and hedonism, the name allusions in the works, and the future prospect of engeneered homo sapiens as eternal working classes. The research discovered that both books are based on humanism, but humans are not treated as they should, that the lower castes in BNW cannot become innovative and creative because they are engineered, that the small oligarchy (the Alphas) maintains its power by providing pleasures for the lower castes so as to forget that they are being controlled.

Conclusions and Future Predictions

2020 ◽  
pp. 399-412
Author(s):  
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
New World ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human History ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
New Challenges

This concluding chapter explains that as viruses like human immunodeficiency virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Zika, and West Nile evolve and emerge, humans are faced with new challenges. Simultaneously, perceptions about new infections and new plagues continue to change. What can and should be done? One must now consider the possible return of smallpox and its use as a weapon of bioterrorism. Meanwhile, even as the march to contain measles and poliomyelitis viruses continues at an impressive pace, bumps and setbacks have been encountered along the way, especially with measles having recurred in 2019 at the time of writing this book. Ultimately, the history of viruses, plagues, and people is an account of the world and the events that shape it. In the end, the splendor of human history is not in wars won, dynasties formed, or financial empires built but in improvement of the human condition. The obliteration of diseases that impinge on people’s health is a regal yardstick of civilization’s success, and those who accomplish that task will be among the true navigators of a brave new world.

scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF W. WARREN WAGAR

1996 ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Short History ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World

In his fascinat ing book "A Short History of the Future," published in 1992, W. Warren Wagar lays out a futuristic vision of the world over the next two hundred years that draws extensively on Inunanuel Wallerstein' s world-system theory. In the year 2001 began the last of the great Kondratieff upswings of the capitalist world-economy. That economy had come to be increasingly dominated by a few giant corporations, so that by 2015 12 "megacorps" had assumed control of the world-economy and thegovernments of the major capitalist powers. The Kondratieff upswing ran its course by the early 2030s and then a devastating worldwide depression set in, the lowest point of which was reached in 2043.

LXII Motifs of Cultural Eschatology in German Poetry from Naturalism to Expressionism

PMLA ◽  
1943 ◽  
Vol 58 (4_1) ◽  
pp. 1125-1177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detlev W. Schümann
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
Gottfried Keller ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Brave New World

When Gottfried Keller in his poetic rejoinder to Justinus Kerner's romantic plaint extolled the world-transforming forces of technology, he expressed the dominant faith of his time in a possible synthesis of the spiritual and the utilitarian, of idealism and materialism. To use the vernacular: he did not doubt but that he could eat his cake and have it. To Kerner it was a bad dream that after the steamship and the locomotive the next step would be aviation, that in the future leaking airborne oil vats might sully the pure atmosphere, the last element to remain undefiled by man; he wished to lie in the grass and gaze up into the serene blue depths while yet he might. Keller replied that there was nothing to prevent such idyllic escape, but that he for one preferred to identify himself with the dynamism of the new “fire dragon.” In fact, was not only now the magic of Kerner's old parchments at last being transformed into reality by the forces of nature in the service of the human spirit? Were they not building for man a “brave new world?”

scholarly journals Humans and humanity at a crossroads, reading Huxley’s brave new world in light of harari’s homo deus

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reimundus Raymond Fatubun
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Lower Castes ◽  
History Book

We don't know where humanity is going. It's challenging to keep up with the rapid advancements in science and technology. In real life, both true and fictional 'truths' play important roles. Huxley's utopian/dystopian novel Brave New World (BNW) depicts a possible future for humanity through his description of a society organized and controlled through the use of science. A contemporary history book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (HD), also discusses the potential of humanity facing extinction in the future. This discussion employs HD to shed light on BNW, using Marxist and New Historicist arguments. Its goals are to analyze the irony in the works, the threat to invention and creativity, oligarchy and hedonism, the name allusions in the works, and the future prospect of engeneered homo sapiens as eternal working classes. The research discovered that both books are based on humanism, but humans are not treated as they should, that the lower castes in BNW cannot become innovative and creative because they are engineered, that the small oligarchy (the Alphas) maintains its power by providing pleasures for the lower castes so as to forget that they are being controlled.

scholarly journals Active tourism vs. ‘Krajoznawstwo’: considerations about Polish history and geography in the context of sightseeing the area around the Lake Malta in Poznan

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Mateusz Rozmiarek ◽  
Joanna Poczta
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Olympic Games

Among the fastest growing branches of the world economy, tourism is considered to be one of the main ones. It provides an opportunity to travel and explore the surrounding reality, including the diverse landscape. One of the most popular forms of tourism is still active tourism, which has a mass range and thus offers a more accessible educational offer in the field of natural and cultural heritage, history or geography. In Poland this is referred as ‘Krajoznawstwo’. The concept has not yet found an equivalent name in English, but it is very much related to tourism. In the Polish capital of Greater Poland region – Poznan, the area around Lake Malta is one of the areas where one can see many objects of interest for people who collect information about the area in the context of gathering knowledge about the country and the region. Not only a geographer or a biologist, but also all those who are comprehensively interested in the natural and cultural heritage, and in the future even in the history of the local participants in the Olympic Games, will find some information there. The main goal of the study is to is to show that “krajoznawstwo” has many features in common with active tourism and can thus be translated into English, where there is no clear equivalent word. The second goal is to present the area of the Malta Lake in Poznań as a case study, a place for the realization of sightseeing interests and active tourism.

scholarly journals What Will An Integrated Socialist World Look Like? Brief comments on Warren Wagar ' s article: "Toward a Praxisof a World Integration"

1996 ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Maria A. Pozas
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Current System ◽  
World System ◽  
Short History ◽  
World State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Single State

World integration under a single state is foreseen by world -system theorists as the only means to save the world from destruction and chaos. The exhaustion of capitalism will lead, in their view, to the substitution of the current system of competing sovereign states by a democratic,liberal and socialist commonwealth. In his article Warren Wagar discusses who will lead this transition, and indirectly suggests that a world system party similar to that of his novel A Short History of the Future (1992) may be the most feasible way to guarantee the socialist character of the new world state.

Two Years after the Crisis: Do Risks of the Second Wave Become Stronger?

2011 ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
M. Ershov
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
World Economy ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Global Imbalances ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Second Wave

With signs of normalization seemingly in place in the world economy, a number of problems show the possibility of aggravation in the future. The volume of derivatives in American banks grows significantly, high risk instruments are back in place and their use becomes more active, global imbalances increase. All of the above requires thorough approaches when creating mechanisms which can neutralize external shocks for the Russian economy and make it possible to develop in the new post-crisis environment.

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