- May 23, 2026
- Economics, Neurociencia, Psicología, Psiquiatría, Responsabilidad social, Salud, Salud Mantal
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) confirmó en 2025 que más de mil millones de personas en todo el mundo viven con un trastorno mental de diversas características y condiciones. Esta cifra representa una parte significativa de la humanidad, y los trastornos de ansiedad y depresión son los más comunes. El costo humano es […]
Strategic Planning and Utopian Thinking for Change
- September 1, 2025
- Business, Development, Economics, Education, Essay, Philosophy, Planning, Social Philosophy, Sociology
The purely expansionist ‘realistic’ strategic planning model typifies today’s society and causes an anticlimax in planning, turning it into a simple matter of forecasting, systematic organization, and the subordination of desirable human goals to foreseeable economic development. Does strategic planning make all the right moves? Utopian thinking becomes a way of testing the boundaries of […]
The Left and Right Political Ideologies and Human Development
It is imperative to move beyond Left and Right political labels, as Giddens (1994) pointed out thirty years ago. To base the political division of the world’s future on ideological standpoints of left or right is senseless. From the left, right, or in the name of God, human history shows the horror of political atrocities against […]
Pandemics, Leadership, and Social Ethics
- October 10, 2020
- Economics, Education, Ethics, Health, Pandemics, Politics, Psychology, Sciences, Social Philosophy
This Viewpoint argues that the absence of worldwide social ethics is at the root of our present social, political, and economic crises. More to the point, the current COVID- 19 pandemic is, in part, a consequence of insufficient scientific research, inappropriate education systems, and globally fragile health structures and human services. The COVID-19 pandemic we […]