CONTENTS
Book One
LOSING SOCIAL INTELLECT
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 : SOCIAL INTELLECT
1.1 What Is Social Intellect ?
1.2 Why Is Social Intellect Important ?
1.3 Why Is The Society Losing Social Intellect ?
Chapter 2 : WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOCIAL INTELLECT WEAKENS
2.1 Structural Failures
2.2 The Spread Of Cheating
2.3 The Rise Of Intellectual Inequality And The Leading Elite
2.4 Misjudgement Of Social Values And Contributions
Chapter 3 : CONSEQUENCES OF LOSING SOCIAL INTELLECT IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY
3.1 Self Interest And The Invisible Hand
3.2 Asymmetry Of Information
3.3 Agency Problems
Chapter 4 : CONSEQUENCES OF LOSING SOCIAL INTELLECT IN A DEMOCRACY
4.1 Democracy And The Social Intellect Of The Society
4.2 Should A Voter Care To Stay Aware?
4.3 Manipulating The Political Opinion Of The Society
4.4 Voters’ Inability To Evaluate Politicians And Policies
4.5 The Political Agents
4.6 The Rise Of The Populists
Chapter 5: HIGH-TECH MEETS DEMOCRACY
5.1 Loss Of Faith In Expertise On Social Sciences
5.2 The Human Variable
5.3 Alone Against Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 6 : HOW TO RISE SOCIAL INTELLECT
6.1 Social Education
6.2 Social Awareness
Chapter 7 : VITAL IMPROVEMENTS IN DEMOCRACY
7.1 The Failure Of Democracy: Confusing The Means And The Ends
7.2 The Licence To Vote
7.3 The Licence To Govern
CONCLUSION
Book Two
COMPETITION AND CHEATING
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 : FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS
1.1 A Glimpse of the Past
1.2 A Glimpse of the Future
Chapter 2 : FAIR COMPETITION
2.1 Allocation Of Resources & Social Intellect
2.2 Fair Competition
Chapter 3 : ALTERNATE PATHS TO SUCCESS
3.1 Components Of Success In Competition
3.2 Merit, Calculated Risks And Luck
3.3 Excessive Risk Taking
3.4 The Strange Case of Extreme-Success
Chapter 4 : CHEATING IN FREE MARKET ECONOMIES
4.1 Cheating
4.2 Cheating Utilising Asymmetry of Information
4.3 Agency Relation And Corruption
4.4 Fallacy Of Cheating
4.5 Cheating And The Society
Chapter 5 : COMPETITION AT THE EXTREMES
5.1 Competition And The Optimal Dose
5.2 Concentration Of Power, Monopolies And Under-competition
5.3 Over-Competition And Zombies
5.4 Under-Competition, Over-Competition, And Their Interaction
Chapter 6 : LAWMAKERS AND CHEATERS
6.1 Cheating, Regulation And Enforcement
6.2 Regulation And The Optimal Dose
6.3 Human Resources In Politics And Bureaucracy
Chapter 7 : COMPETITION AND CHEATING IN POLITICS
7.1 Competition In Politics
7.2 Cheating In Politics
7.3 Concentration Of Power In Politics
CONCLUSION
Book Three
INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 : FUNDAMENTALS OF FREE MARKET ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY
1.1 Clarifying The Basic Concepts
1.2 The Relation Of Inequality And Growth Rate
1.3 Welfare : A New Definition
Chapter 2 : THE SEARCH FOR OPTIMAL POLICY
2.1 Economic Policies And Policy Cycles
2.2 Travelling On The Learning Curve
2.3 Game Changers And Restarting The Learning Curve
Chapter 3 : WHEN DOES DEMOCRACY FAIL TO REBALANCE THE SYSTEM ?
3.1 From Theory To Practise
3.2 The Check-And-Balance Relation Between Economics And Politics - Revisited
3.3 Shift Of Attention To Non-Economic Issues Within Politics
3.4 The Shift Of Attention Away From Politics
3.5 Intellectual Inequality
3.6 The Failure and The Cure
Chapter 4 : SOCIAL SECURITY
4.1 Taxation-and-Distribution
4.2 Social Investment For The Young
4.3 Social Security For The Elderly
4.4 Social Security For The Working-Aged
4.5 Fair Competition And Social Security
Chapter 5 : RESTRUCTURING TAXATION FOR MAXIMISING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND WELFARE
5.1 The State Budget
5.2 Taxation As The Primary Source Of Financing
5.3 Taxation Of Extreme-Success
Chapter 6 : ALTERNATE PATHS ALTERNATE ENDS
6.1 The Middle Class And The Western Social Order
6.2 Alternate Paths
CONCLUSION