The creative society : how the future can be won / Lars Tvede

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Introduction. Creativity, Seen From Space -- Part I How Creativity Develops: 1 When creativity began -- 2 The taming of life -- 3 The dynamics of ideas --Part II The Rises And Falls of Creativity :4 The first civilizations -- 5 Europe's remarkable re-boot -- 6 The great take-off -- 7 The question of the creative core -- 8 How creativity ceases -- 9 Why only the West? -- Part III Why Creativity Changes People : 10 How we learned to co-operate -- 11 Creativity and culture -- Part IV The Rise Of the Naysayers -- 12 Won't the ideas soon run out? -- 13 Are free markets self-defeating? -- 14 Are we draining the world's last resources? -- 15 Does growth destroy the environment? -- Part V The Silting of Society : 16 The legal tangle -- 17 The public productivity problem -- 18 Over-taxation and public borrowing -- 19 The donation delusions -- Part VI The Enemies of Reason : 20 Neo-Luddites and panic-mongers -- 21 Eco-fascists and pseudo scientists -- 22 Babblers, cynics, charlatans -- 23 Utopian social engineers -- Part VII Saving Creativity : 24 The 12 threats to creativity -- 25 The creative state -- 26 The possible world -- References

Human creativity has been one of the fundamental drivers of civilization and progress. Western civilization is now suffering from serious internal decay with its punitive taxes, over-regulation, debt and unemployment. Tvede explains why this is normal and suggest some solutions to overcome current crises and challenges