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Where Does Our World Go?

by Hans Kalff

200 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-0695; ISBN 1-4120-2866-3; US$20.00, C$25.00, EUR16.25, £11.26

How to find your way in this crazy and confusing and complicated world!

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About the Book      About the Author      Excerpt      Catalogue Information

About the Book

We all have but one world. We should make this a better place for present people and for our future generations. How? Nobody knows for sure. However we can learn from past developments that seem to have worked giving people a worthy life, liberty and property.

Look at the nine slices of society that exist everywhere, given sufficient data to measure their effect, searching for the upward trends.

About the Kalff-o-gram: the graph on the front-page shows in the center the upward development of the gross domestic product per head from 1950 = 100 to 2000 = 2827 in the Netherlands. The 100% box on top of this line indicates the change in the mix of 4 groups of workers: agriculture (orange), industry (white), government (blue) and services (red). The 100% box under this line shows their output or contribution to g.d.p.

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About the Author

In his active life Hans worked within international companies like Unilever and Heineken. Hans Kalff has learned how a person takes his daily decisions, and forms societies that nobody seems to steer. Positive developments can be seen by measuring what people do rather than what people say they do. Retired, he continues to follow the upward developmemts in his nine slices of society. He can be reached at hanskalff@naples.net.

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Excerpt

Introduction

For whom?

It is unbelievable the amount of money that we have loaned from our grandchildren. They will have to earn and pay back our loans including the interest. So we owe a lot to our grandchildren. The author prepared this book in particular for his grandchildren and in general for all the grandchildren in the world.

Here is a guide to the future to give them a better start. In a new perspective, it will demonstrate the society we live in. In a way it is not taught in school, nor mentioned by your parents.

This is the handbook how society has been developing over the past 2-3 centuries, with particular emphasis on the last 50 years of the second millennium. Society has a life of its own and tracing its past can give a clue for the future.

It is a changing world, not a predetermined one by stars or gods who decide without our cooperation.

People want certainty. Who is providing that when few people know what is going on?

Society is complicated. Who shall explain this in an understandable way?

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Catalogue Information

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