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Book Description

Human creativity has been one of the fundamental drivers of civilization and progress – solving immense problems, creating opportunities and overcoming enemies like no other force. Often it has baffled its skeptics by finding new and better resources, unexpected environmental technologies and genuinely amazing products that no one had predicted. However, like so many before it, Western civilization is now suffering from serious internal decay with its bloated public sectors, punitive taxes, over-regulation, marginalized citizens, stagnation, debt, unemployment and pessimism. This important and fascinating book explains why internal decay is normal. But it also shows how and why solutions can be found by countries and companies, enabling more reativity and adaptability than ever before. It’s through the power of creativity that society and business can overcome the challenges and crises of today.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. INTRODUCTION. CREATIVITY, SEEN FROM SPACE
  7. PART I. HOW CREATIVITY DEVELOPS
    1. 1. When creativity began
    2. 2. The taming of life
    3. 3. The dynamics of ideas
  8. PART II. THE RISES AND FALLS OF CREATIVITY
    1. 4. The first civilizations
    2. 5. Europe’s remarkable re-boot
    3. 6. The great take-off
    4. 7. The question of the creative core
    5. 8. How creativity ceases
    6. 9. Why only the West?
  9. PART III. WHY CREATIVITY CHANGES PEOPLE
    1. 10. How we learned to co-operate
    2. 11. Creativity and culture
  10. PART IV. THE RISE OF THE NAYSAYERS
    1. 12. Won’t the ideas soon run out?
    2. 13. Are free markets self-defeating?
    3. 14. Are we draining the world’s last resources?
    4. 15. Does growth destroy the environment?
  11. PART V. THE SILTING OF SOCIETY
    1. 16. The legal tangle
    2. 17. The public productivity problem
    3. 18. Over-taxation and public borrowing
    4. 19. The donation delusions
  12. PART VI. THE ENEMIES OF REASON
    1. 20. Neo-Luddites and panic-mongers
    2. 21. Eco-fascists and pseudo scientists
    3. 22. Babblers, cynics, charlatans
    4. 23. Utopian social engineers
  13. PART VII. SAVING CREATIVITY
    1. 24. The 12 threats to creativity
    2. 25. The creative state
    3. 26. The possible world
  14. REFERENCES
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