MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System

by Said Dawlabani

Overview

From the Foreword by Don Edward Beck, PhD: Books about subjects like economics are rarely written from the perspective of human or cultural evolution. Seldom, if ever, does a reader come across a narrative with pioneering methods that reframe a specialized discipline through a wide-cultural whole systems approach. This is precisely what Said E. Dawlabani does in this revolutionary book, Memenomics: The Next-Generation Economic System. This is a book that reframes the issues of competing economic and political ideologies and places them into an evolutionary new paradigm. This is a book about change done right. It is no secret that today we are dealing with a great political divide that threatens many of our democratic institutions. Right and left ideologies have becomes polarized camps that seem to be worlds apart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590799963
Publisher:	SelectBooks
Publication date:	09/17/2013
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

SAID DAWLABANI is the leading expert in the value-systems approach to economics. He is the founder of The Memenomics Group, an advisory organization that reframes economic issues through the prism of value systems and offers sustainable solutions based on this emerging science. For the past decade he has worked closely with renowned global geopolitical advisor Dr. Don E. Beck, one of the architects behind South Africa's transition from apartheid and co-author of Spiral Dynamics.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Part 1 MEMEnomics

A Whole Systems View On the Evolution of Economies 1

Introduction 3

1 The Last Son of Enlightenment 17

A New Day of Infamy 17

The Rise of a Global Leader 18

Environment Shaping Ideology 20

The Long Shadow of Objectivism 24

The Hero who saved America 25

The Final Curtain 28

2 The Value-System Paradigm for the Economy 33

A Brief History of the Emerging Science of Value Systems 35

Spiral Dynamics: The Theory that explains the Levels of Existence 38

The Eight Levels of Existence 41

The Double-Helix Nature of the Framework 42

Characteristics Common to All Value Systems 45

The First-Tier Systems 47

Biege: The First-Level System 47

Purple: The Second-Level System 47

Red: The Third-Level System 50

Blue: The Fourth-Level System 52

Orange: The Fifth-Level System 56

Green: The Sixth-Level System 60

The Second-Tier Systems 63

Yellow: The Seventh-Level System 63

Turquoise: The Eighth-Level System 66

Subsistence ^vMEMEs in Charge of Economic Policies 68

3 The Memenomics Theoretical Framework 71

Memenomic Cycles 72

The Tech-LC Gap 81

Aesthetic vs. Systemic Change 81

4 The Role of Money in Emergence of Cultures 85

Money and the Tribal Order 86

The Emperor's Coin 87

The Gold of Nations 88

Rise of the Dollar 90

Inflation: The First Historic Threat to the Monetary Order ^vMEME 92

The New Fed, Debaucher of Currency 94

The End of Money as We Know It 98

Part 2 History of the Value of a Subsistence Economy 103

5 The First and Second Memenomic Cycles: The Fiefdoms of Power and the Patriotic Prosperity Memes 105

The Fiefdoms of Power Meme 105

FDR's Visionary New Deal 108

The 1950s: Building the Middle Class Memes 111

The New Frontier and the Great Society 112

The Heavy Costs of Visionary Mandates and the End of an Era 117

Fertile Grounds for Ideological Shifts 120

6 The Third Memenomic Cycle: The "Only Money Matters" Meme 125

Taming the Beast 128

The Final Pieces of the Puzzle 130

Finance vs. Production 133

Setting the Conditions for the Perfect "MEME Storm 135

In the Eye of the ^vMemetic Storm 142

Bailout: The Final Phase of the Current System 148

7 In Search of a New Paradigm 153

The Fourth Memenomic Cycle: The Democratization of Information Meme 158

Part 3 The Platform for Functional Capitalism 165

8 Value Systems and Functional Flow 167

The Exhausted Economic Values of the First Tier 167

Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap 169

The Systemic ^vMEME Revisited 172

Superordinate Goal of the Fifth Memenomic Cycle 174

Smart Government of the Future 175

Seventh-Level Leadership in the Media 177

Seventh-Level Ecosystem 179

Natural Design and Functional Flow 184

9 Embracing the Values of the Knowledge Economy: f(Knowledge) 195

The Post-Industrial Society Revisited: An Infrastructure of Knowledge 195

Scarcity vs. Abundance Economics 196

Distributed Innovation (DI), the Foundation of a Yellow Economy 202

The New Entrepreneurship Meme 205

10 The Case for Functional Financial Systems: f(Finance) 209

Realigning Money 209

Designing a Seventh-Level Currency 212

Central Banks of the Seventh-Level System 214

Second-Tier Capital Markets 217

11 Designing for the Future of Manufacturing: f(Manufacturing) 221

The Manufacturing Sector and Value Systems 221

Second-Tier Manufacturing 224

Renewable Energy and the Future of Manufacturing 228

Additive Manufacturing: A Distributed Innovation Model 229

12 Defining the Sustainable Corporation from Stockholder to Stakeholders: f(Corp) 233

The Corporate ^vMEME Struggle 233

The Current Functional Misalignment 236

The Functional Seventh-Level CEO 237

The Evolution of Ownership 242

Google's Systemic Disruption 244

The Different Whole-Systems Approach of Whole Foods 250

The Corporation of the Future 256

Notes 259

Acknowledgments 267

Index 269

About the Author 285

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"I was asked to share my thoughts on some of the most important books on the future of capitalism. Here is number 1: Memenomics: The Next-Generation Economic System--It is a rich and illuminating re-thinking of evolutionary economics by an outstanding American-Lebanese thinker. Said E. Dawlabani is a meta-economist and a key practitioner of the emerging science of value systems. This book is a must-read for those looking to understand systemic change." -- Jean Houston, Ph.D.

"In MEMEnomics, cultural creative Said E. Dawlabani provides a resource to help us safely navigate this dark passage to a healthier future. Dawlabani, a macroeconomics expert, exploits the frontier science of biomimicry to offer a pioneering value-system's approach to modeling the conscious evolution of business." -- Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, Cell biologist and best-selling author of The Biology of Belief

"Said Elias Dawlabani has opened the door to this crucial topic with a groundbreaking conversation about the stages of development of people and societies, and the emerging economic systems needed to fit the life conditions we face. Read this book--and join the conversation about healthy change." -- Cindy Wigglesworth, Author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence; President, Deep Change, Inc.

Editorial Reviews

I was asked to share my thoughts on some of the most important books on the future of capitalism. Here is number 1: Memenomics: The Next-Generation Economic System—It is a rich and illuminating re-thinking of evolutionary economics by an outstanding American-Lebanese thinker. Said E. Dawlabani is a meta-economist and a key practitioner of the emerging science of value systems. This book is a must-read for those looking to understand systemic change. — Jean Houston, Ph.D.

In MEMEnomics, cultural creative Said E. Dawlabani provides a resource to help us safely navigate this dark passage to a healthier future. Dawlabani, a macroeconomics expert, exploits the frontier science of biomimicry to offer a pioneering value-system's approach to modeling the conscious evolution of business. — Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, Cell biologist and best-selling author of The Biology of Belief

Said Elias Dawlabani has opened the door to this crucial topic with a groundbreaking conversation about the stages of development of people and societies, and the emerging economic systems needed to fit the life conditions we face. Read this book—and join the conversation about healthy change. — Cindy Wigglesworth, Author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence; President, Deep Change, Inc.

From the Publisher