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Institute of Global Dynamic Systems

Canberra ACT
AUSTRALIA

Contact

Executive Director institutegds@gmail.com

Institute Objectives

The Institute of Global Dynamic Systems (IGDS) is the organisational outcome of a long-term research programme concerned with dynamic living systems. This research programme on the dynamics of life in general and human society in particular has been conducted by Professor Graeme Snooks since the 1960s with the aim of developing a body of realist economic, social, political, psychological, and biological theory to explain humanity’s past and present, as well as to predict the future.

This realist theory is concerned with the rise and fall of societies, species, and entire animal dynasties; with the emergence and development of the selfcreating mind; with the development and role of human institutions and organizations of an economic, social, and political kind; with the emergence and role of religion in human history; with the truth about climate change and the real (dynamic) impact of climate mitigation; with the dangers of blindly following ideas rather than materialist desires; with the future technological revolution and its impact on the developing world; and with the deep future of humanity on Earth and in the Solar system.

Institute Executive Director

Professor Graeme Donald Snooks, PhD––foundation Timothy Coghlan Professor (1989–2010), Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. The work and publications of Graeme Snooks can be found at the following internet site:
[homepage link]

 

Institute Working Papers

2009
WP 010 Snooks, Graeme Climate Mitigation or Technological Revolution?
A Critical Choice of Futures
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WP 009 Snooks, Graeme The New Global Crisis Makers: Economic Intervention and the Loss of Strategic Leadership Download Paper 09
WP 008 Snooks, Graeme Constructing a General Theory of Life:
The Dynamics of Human and Non-human Systems
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2008
WP 007 Snooks, Graeme Recession, Depression, and Financial Crisis: Everything Economists Want to Know But Are Afraid to Ask Download Paper 07
WP 006 McKay, Huw

Metal Intensity in Comparative Historical Perspective: China, North Asia, the United States & the Kuznets Curve

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WP 005 Snooks, Graeme

The Neanderthal Enigma: A New Theoretical Approach

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WP 004 McKay, Huw

Asian industrialization: a strategic analysis with a memorandum on the Australian response

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WP 003 Cornish, Selwyn

History and the Development of Central Banking in
Australia 1920-1970

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WP 002 Snooks, Graeme

Australia’s Longrun Economic Strategy, Performance, and Policy: A New Dynamic Perspective

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WP 001 Snooks, Graeme

The Irrational “War on Inflation”: Why Inflation Targeting is Both Socially Unacceptable and Economically Untenable

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