New industrial future for the global world

Abstract

The ideas of a famous American economist John Kenneth Galbraith, which he was developing during the second half of the 20th century, have always attracted the deserved attention. However, even today, in the 21st century, and moreover, in a present-day period of serious turbulence in the world economy and geopolitics, much of his scientific heritage is in demand as a starting point for a deep understanding of modern socioeconomic issues. Firstly, the attention he paid to the impact of technological developments on changes in the socio-economic system of society prompts us now to pay close attention to the fundamental consequences of current technological shifts. Secondly, the views of J.K. Galbraith on the key role of the industrial system in the economy are still up-to-date. It is precisely the shifts that are taking place today in the industrial core of the economy that allow us to talk about the upcoming transition to a second generation New Industrial Society (NIS.2). The opportunities that NIS.2 brings with it, and the technological, global economic, environmental-climatic, biological and geopolitical risks observed today, including those fraught with catastrophic consequences, which in their material form are causedby new technological achievements, realities and possibilities of the modern technological revolution, make it increasingly acute to raise the question of the prospect of moving away from the dominance of rational economic calculation and the prevalence of the interests of global financial capital. There is a need to shift to such a way of satisfying human wants, which would be rational from the point of view of the criteria of reason and culture - to noonomy. The path to noonomy is long and difficult, but the crisis in the global economy, politics and culture strongly dictates the need to take the first concrete steps along this path, including through the establishment of equal economic cooperation between countries and peoples.