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Based on
member article of the month: How do we work together
to make Flow a more effective global movement that moves more
rapidly towards sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness
for all?
- Frederick Turner, “Make Everybody Rich,”
a slightly
tongue-in-cheek article by the poet Frederick Turner who makes the point
that, if we encourage economic growth, we thereby eliminate “war, the
environment, education, health, crime, women’s rights, unemployment, the
oppression of the poor, racism, xenophobia, restrictions on political
liberty, the decline of religious spirituality, various crises in the arts,
lack of support for scientific research and the space program, and
overpopulation.”
- Candace Allen, “Entrepreneur as Hero,”
understanding the process
of entrepreneurship as a heroic quest using the archetypic framework
described by Joseph Campbell.
- Mary Ruwart, Healing Our World,
a free download of her
classic work on how a world founded on non-violence will be a safer,
healthier, happier world.
- R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance," the
classic American essay on how to develop one's own
voice, how to be true to oneself, "To believe your own
thought, to believe that what is true for you in your
private heart is true for all men, ˜ that is genius."
- Explorers Foundation: "
We believe that enterprise devoted to finding,
inventing, presenting, and distributing tools for
explorers will change the world," a remarkable set of
links that will provide FLOW explorers with useful
tools for changing the world.
- Vision In Action: "a driving force behind the movement to restore
wholeness and balance to a divided world through
creative, integral thinking in the areas of personal
integrity, business accountability, science, the arts
and social endeavors," founded by the Zen philosopher
Yasuhiko Kimura.
- Napolean Hill, Think and Grow Rich. Despite the title, from a more innocent
time, this is a classic text on how to develop a vision and put it into
action, regardless of the nature of the enterprise being created.
- Gary Hoover, Hoover’s Vision: Original Thinking for Business Success. Quite
literally how to become a more original thinker in order to identify great
business opportunities.
- Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The classic book on how to
systematically develop more innovative approaches to the creation of
enterprises.
- F.A. Hayek, “The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization,” in Felix Morley,
editor, Essays in Individuality. Hayek explains how, just as freedom of
speech is crucial in order to discover new knowledge, freedom of action is
crucial to discover new ways of doing things.
- Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches. Adescription of how economic growth is
largely a matter of tinkerers making incremental improvements within a
Smithian framework.
- Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World:
The True Story of How Europe's Poorest Nation and Created Everything In
It. Despite the over-hyped title, this is an amazing story of the meme of
the
Scottish Enlightenment (the original British title of this work) did
substantially cause the Industrial Revolution (David Hume, Adam Smith,
and James Watt all shared distinctively Scottish Enlightenment ways of thinking)
and much of the most successful economic development since then (including
the American founding and 19th century success and 19th century British
liberalism).
- Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers and The Creators. A series of short
biographies (each is less about ten pages long) covering many of the most
amazing discoverers and creators in history, incredibly inspiring and
reminding one of how bit-by-bit our entire world was created by new
initiatives that resulted in entirely new ways of seeing and experiencing
the world.
In addition to the information presented above, we encourage
you to examine the article presented
below.
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