Basing Development Strategy on the Human Factor

Abstract

We come to an international gathering such as this World Congress of economists most probably with the main aim of gaining some new inspirations in economic thinking. Openness to new concepts, new ways of understanding reality, new methods of analysis, are very much needed, particularly at the present juncture in the historical development process. We are facing, probably more than ever before, new facts and new challenges; and new horizons are appearing before humanity. To guide our behaviour, in response to all that, requires first and foremost appropriate patterns of understanding reality and its trends. And that is what we are, or should be, looking for.