The Structure of Unicist Economic Scenarios
Unicist Economic Scenarios deal with the concepts that drive production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. They deal with the materialistic aspects of a society to ensure its survival and growth while providing a basis for the evolution of the coming generations.
The unicist conceptual economy considers that the core objective of economy is the organization of work processes in a culture or institution. Economic Scenarios can only occur within the level of the archetype of a culture and based on the values of work .
The purpose of an economic scenario is to generate wealth, its active function that puts this purpose into action is the generation of social added value, which makes wealth become useful, and the energy conservation function is the generation of wealth with growth.
This synthetic definition requires entering the definition of the three elements that integrate economics in order to define the sub-concepts/fundamentals that integrate it. It has to be considered that each of the concepts that define conceptual economy need to reach a threshold according to the expectations that are implicit in the social scenario that are finally based on the values implicit in the archetype of a culture.
The Ontogenetic Map of Economic Scenarios
Conceptual economy organizes what is possible to be achieved. Crises occur when any concept becomes dysfunctional and does not work within its credibility zone and cannot be compensated by its energy conservation function.
The final purpose of conceptual economy is the generation of wealth, which can only be achieved if the culture is driven by the value of work as a value generating action and not only as a way to survive.
But work as a value can only generate wealth if it is sustained by the necessary technology that allows dealing in a competitive context. Technology implies necessarily innovation.
Work and technology can only establish a meaningful integration when people are driven by the need to learn. This implies that the environment needs to foster the generation of value and improvement in order to evolve and thus a learning context is given.
Levels of Functionality of Economic Scenarios:
The four levels of effectiveness of economic scenarios are:
Level 1) Incentive driven
Level 2) Technology driven
Level 3) Market driven
Level 4) Transcendence driven
At an operational level, economic scenarios need to consider the conjunctural and structural aspects to provide employment and foster innovation and the development and use of technologies.
Level 1) Incentive driven
It is the segment of the economic activity that needs incentives to foster consumption and to use technologies that increase its effectiveness.
Level 2) Technology driven
It is the segment of the economic activity that is fully technology dependant to achieve the generation of growth and wealth. It requires strong investments in education to foster innovations and improvements in work processes.
Level 3) Market driven
It is the segment of the economic activity that is competitive in terms of value and price, which allows following the needs of the markets.
Level 4) Transcendence driven
It is the segment of economic activity that has achieved a level of maturity that allows managing structural investments to ensure the wellbeing of the coming generations.
Peter Belohlavek
NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute has been, since 1976, the pioneer in complexity science research to deal with adaptive entities and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of adaptive systems and environments. It was one of the precursors of the Industry 4.0 concept.