Holistic Solutions
A think tank established for the creation of “closed, holistic systems.”
Democracy in Action
October 12, 2013
From the US, to Greece, to India, there's a sea change in tone and deliberation toward brighter tomorrows, and too, a post-Cold War era, in which democracy is unbridled, so there is a still tenable end to all geopolitical conflict and strife.
In India, you do not have to look far, the country has just passed a magnificently progressive piece of legislation, and result of its assembly, that promises to uplift all out of poverty, which is both abject, and below a standard income level which is fair and equitable.
India, it would seem, seeks to strike its balance, and as a “trender,” hopefully, the world's balance, between growth and holism, uplifting those disadvantaged by 'comparative advantage', and growth that's just not necessitated by the holistic sciences, also, that, inadvertently, creates imbalance, or pollution, or unintended consequences of the plurality, the democratic mean that should always rise up.
In Greece, if we search back to the hopeful “rainbow,” and internationalism, of Keynesian days in between and toward free market, invisible hand, economics theorems, being practiced at a minimum, without hesitation, in Portugal, Spain and Greece, to the affect of economic progress, and to stop short impending global warming, predating the effects of a financial market crisis that reached the shores of Europe, in 2009 and 2010, we see, too, a hopeful era of upliftment combined with greater prosperity and hope for all. Albeit, banking helped conspire to end the Keynesian promise for continued, steady development. The theorems of then Greece Prime Minister began to encapsulate a need to reduce interest rates on loans or distributed dollars meant, from the outset, to spur holistic and infrastructure, plus jobs, growth.
While countries in northern Europe, including Denmark, practiced, theoretically, a higher level of free market activity, Denmark, and even Germany, supported, too, solar and alternative energy growth and investments, while, in a number of the northern European nations, governments also heavily tax accruals of assets, like car purchases - this being a democratic socialist norm – which also affords a lower college tuition rate, and one which might be subsidized.
The southern European countries might arguably have been moving toward the traditions of their northern neighbors, albeit with a strong infrastructure, for green energy, and jobs, initiative, which appeared to be working, and positively, regarding the economic liberalization combined with cutting edge sciences, until, that is, the financial crises affecting banks and transitional markets, mostly. In light of that, interest rates might truly have been, and still could be, more level playing fields for nations of all colors, each seeking to strike a balance between growth and equity, and still with Keynesian foresight in mind, which is truly democratic, and supports a free market that is rational, all around, a utopian market. One should read the life story of Keynes to see he addressed a future, economic order in which there was economic utopia and balance in every city and town, and thus, nation.
So, Greece, while having experienced stalemate, and now conflict, from the days of crisis several years ago, might better be seen as a pioneer in world markets, straddling developed and developing countries, preaching a middle course, that banks traditionally support, and did with Obama's stimulus, which might still have been better managed to encourage even greater green growth, and the Marshall Plan, two different extremes, between which, there were the progressive actions of the southern European nations in a 21st century era of growth and environmentalism, both.
America, the United States, specifically, seeks simply to reduce its expenditures which are wasteful, or unnecessary costs of doing government, to produce a more efficient, still central and responsible, government, which enacts democratic exchange combined with free market freedoms, still with the proper protections from a Treasury that safeguards its people.
My idea here, a very recent revelation, the result of the work of the Holistic Solutions Think Tank, is for future steps that still adhere to Keynes' logic, but having reached that stage of economic utopia and balance. Government and Business dollars: The Treasury disperses government expenditures on an annual basis, erasing a need for taxes, but that is need-based, and the Federal Reserve only provides necessary stimulus to localities, regions, or the nation, in times of free market losses which are unexpected or a consequence of real growth.
For more details about this economics viewpoint, read the Holistic Solutions Think Tank's Economy, Notes, publication, available from the think tank's Director, Yasha Husain, yashahusain@gmail.com.
Yasha Melanie Husain. Copyright 2013-14.