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The prospect for the world development today contrasts with the optimistic outlook for post-imperial development 50 years ago. James Robertson argues that we need to deal with the metaproblems underlying almost all the particular threats we face. One is that our present money system motivates us to accelerate the onset of combined system collapse.
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Explores how our present money system has led to systemic collapse
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Robertson, J. The Twenty-first Century Crisis of World Development – The Central Role of Money Values: A metaproblem. Development 52, 317–322 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2009.42
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