The Role of Productivity in Community Success: The Jesuit-Guaraní Cultural Confluence
<p>(Note: This material appeared previously in "Chum For Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters" by the same author.)<br/>This historical essay, drawn from the deepest jungles of Uruguay in South America, examines the creation of a flourishing culture and economy that la...
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Smashwords Edition
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo en Odilo |
| Ver en Universidad Loyola - Universidad Loyola Granada: | https://colectivo.uloyola.es/Record/Odilo00053697 |
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| Sumario: | <p>(Note: This material appeared previously in "Chum For Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters" by the same author.)<br/>This historical essay, drawn from the deepest jungles of Uruguay in South America, examines the creation of a flourishing culture and economy that lasted for almost two centuries. It explores the guided development of a virtuous web of social and economic controls that mixed the philosophy of Catholic Jesuit missionaries with the traditions of the native Guaraní peoples.</p><p>An unprecedented experiment in progressive community-building may have once created that rarest of cultural treasures - a functional and stable utopia... ended only by outside pressures of conquest and exploitation.</p><p>This is a living parable for our changing world, now suffering from seemingly-intractable political, cultural and economic turmoil... and struggling to be born into a tenuous future on uncertain threads of hope and despair. Rapid introduction of technology, educational systems, health care systems and social order have succeeded before - balancing competition and consumption in a new kind of community - and might be made to work again as we seek to create our own "new economy."</p><p>In this startling synthesis, Mr. Satterlee brings together and introduces:<br/>• historical records,<br/>• the social theories of the Catholic Church,<br/>• the management theories of Peter Drucker,<br/>• the psycho-social theories of Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics Integral, and<br/>• the economics ideas of William Lewis and the McKinsey Global Institute on "the power of productivity."</p> |
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| Público: | General/trade |
| ISBN: | 9781301804849 |
