Changing Economic Paradigms, Globalization, Diplomacy, The Welfare State, Philanthropy, Sustainability, Liberalism and Neo-liberalism, Development

For many years, F. David Peat held discussions, via personal meetings and exchanges of emails and telephone calls, on a number of topics clustered around issues of ethics, trust and loyalty in business and finance, economics in a globalized word, the role that can be played by the ethical standards and spiritual beliefs of individuals within organizations, social and national tensions associated with economic inequalities, concerns about the future of the biosphere, environmental sustainability, energy reserves and production and economic issues surrounding climate change. In many ways these discussions arose out of the contributions of visitors to the Pari Center, as well as during conferences such as the Pari Roundtable on Corporate Ethics, Globalization and Economic Instabilities in 2002. A further input was provided by the discussions held in Pari and London within the context of the Templeton Foundation’s Spiritual Capital project.

The following are a collection of papers, some of which emerged from the Roundtables held in Pari, others from economists and those involved in corporations, business, governments. and NGOs who have supported our work.

Conference: Chaos Theory and the Arts in the Context of Social, Economic and Organizational Development. March 18-21, 2000
Conference Report

Pari Roundtable on Corporate Ethics, Globalization and Economic Instabilities. November 16,17, 2002
Background paper

Conference: Ethical Choices in Society, the Economy and the Environment. Siena, Italy May 5-6, 2006
Conference report

Pari Roundtable. Ethics, Business, and the Future.  Pari 11-13 September 2009
Background
What I Came With, What I Left With

About That Confidential Employee Hotline: An Open Letter To Boards, CEOs And Other Interested Stakeholders
DONNA BOEHME

Reflections
GEOFFREY BUSH

How The Modern CCO Came To Be
CARON CARLSON

Future Work
ARTHUR J. CORDELL

Robinson Crusoe Economics
ARTHUR J. CORDELL

Globalized Labour: A Canadian Perspective
ARTHUR J. CORDELL

Social and Economic Limits of the Current Economic Paradigm: The Need for New Understandings of Society and Economy
ARTHUR J. CORDELL

The Internet and the Need for Governance: Learning from the Past, Coping with the Future
PRABIR K. NEOGI and ARTHUR J. CORDELL

The New Wealth of Nations: Taxing Cyberspace.
Arthur J. Cordell, T. Ran Ide, Luc Soete, Karin Kamp

Gentle Action: Developing Strategies for Effective Social Change and Transformation
F. DAVID PEAT

Gentle Action: Surviving Chaos and Change (Condensed version)
F. DAVID PEAT

Gentle Action: Surviving Chaos and Change (Expanded Version with Examples)
F. DAVID PEAT

Nature and Ethics
F. David Peat

Ethics in the Future
JONATHAN PECK

Pari Roundtable: Beyond the Bottom Line
COLIN TUDGE

The World Food Club: A People’s Co-Operative to Create a New Food Supply Chain From The Farm To The Table
COLIN TUDGE

The Quest to Civilise Globalisation
The Club of Athens Global Governance Group

The Pari Network on Ethical Considerations in Economics, Business, Society and the Environment

Overview

Recent Additions

Examples of a Holistic Economy: Saltwater Economy
Godelieve Spaas

A 21^st Century Renaissance
Colin Tudge

From Certainty to Uncertainty: Thought, Theory and Action in a Postmodern World
F. David Peat

Unbounded Organizing: Collaboration and Fractals
Gavin Andersson

Inescapable Journeys: On Integrating the Dual and Non-Dual
Robert Norris

Getting Beyond the Robot: Some Reflections on Paradoxical Freedom
Gary Lachman

The Screen, and the Soul: Virtual Reality, Real Reality, and How Things Are
Christopher Hauke

To Create a More Beautiful World
Arnold Smith

The Power of Love
Satish Kumar