“The wealth of a nation will no longer be oil, cars and raw materials, but human, social and cultural capital.”
The article put together by Emanuele Isonio for the current issue of Pierpaolo Donati, Tito Boeri, Giorgio Cittadini, Tullio De Mauro and Alfonso Molina, together with other reflections and conclusions by illustrious scholars, like Gary Becker, Nobel Prize for the Economy in 1982, and more recent research.
All of this is spruced with a series of reading recommendations to continue thinking and especially acting on this issue.
- “Intangibles: Wealth in the Knowledge Society” in Valori, n. 66, February 2009
“The country needs a holistic change if it wants to become on of the best realities. It is vital to transmit the significance of these sectors, involving all the social, political, economic and entrepreneurial forces. The young must be challenged, their creativity must be unfettered. A country that denies young generations the opportunity to grasp its future is destined to lose long-term challenges. The current economic crisis can turn out to be paradoxically positive. We may choose to look at it as an obstacle and adopt useless temporary solutions or we can decide to exploit it to overcome our problems and create a true democratic knowledge society.” (Alfonso Molina).
