Title: Systemic Challenges in The Digital Age
Subtitle: Bringing the Social Puzzle Parts Together
Subject Classification:  Society and Culture, Politics and Government, Economics and Finance  
BIC Classification: KC, JF, JP
BISAC Classification: SOC000000, POL033000, BUS069010
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Publication date: 12 Sep 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-514-3
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-515-0

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Description

To understand what is happening with our economies and our societies, we need to consider how the different dimensions interact. The economic, political, social, cultural and environmental approaches must be brought together for us to see an overall direction and pace of change. Institutions change very slowly, but technology is moving at great speed, and this holistic approach makes the overall drama clear, by detailing the different factors of change, and stressing the interactions. This research will be useful for all the readers or researchers interested in understanding the systemic change we are facing.

The systemic challenges result from a number of smaller modifications in how our society works, involving economic, social, political and cultural change. We face sustainability issues, massive inequality, financialization, technological trends, demographic challenges, and violent conflicts. These transformations have in turn led to a growing political chaos, both within countries and on the global scale. This means that we are not only facing vital issues, of our survival as humanity, but losing our already fragile capacity of intervention. The issue is not so much with the emergence of populist demagogues – there will always be plenty of them – but of the forces that have been using them and brought them to power. Governance capacity is lagging, stalled in rigid profit-maximizing corporate interests and the unending political wrangles.

Biography

Author(s):  Ladislau Dowbor is professor of economics at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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