We live in an era of great transformation.

Citizens everywhere can feel the ground shifting from under them, from terrorism to pandemics to job insecurity, yet we do not yet have a road map of the changes, let alone a blueprint for how to address them.

All of these dislocations can be tied in part to major changes in the way the global economy operates. Some of these changes have been documented by authors such as Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat) and William Greider (The Soul of Capitalism), both in terms of a sense of great optimism and great pessimism, respectively. Yet no one has clearly tied these things together in a way that gets us past the stage of lamentation and onto a plan to respond.

The world is not flat, but round. We are increasingly affected and interconnected from one remote corner to another, and both the positive and negative effects of this transformation are multiplying.

A golden age is well within our grasp. It is not a pipe dream. What is good for us as individuals and as nations is in many ways directly tied in with the welfare of others.

Our Diagnosis - The Links Between Global Problems and Our Everyday Lives

The Solution - Why Our Attempts to Tackle Global Problems Fail, and a Way Forward