Politics is who gets what, when, how. – Harold Lasswell
The human decision-making that is creating human society’s who-gets-what crises is a decision-making system that may be called “Political Economic Decision-making” for deciding who-gets-what.
Political Economic Decision-making for deciding who-gets-what may also be referred to as “the Political Economy” or just “the economy.”[1]
Political Economic Decision-making for deciding who-gets-what is the sum of all the decision-making – through all the decision-making processes used by decision-makers throughout the whole of human society …
… for deciding who-gets-what energy …
… for deciding who-gets-what water …
… for deciding who-gets-what food …
… for deciding who-gets-what health …
… for deciding who-gets-what education …
… for deciding who-gets-what income and work …
… for deciding who-gets-what peace and justice …
… for deciding who-gets-what political voice …
… for deciding who-gets-what social equity …
… for deciding who-gets-what gender equality …
… for deciding who-gets-what housing …
… and for deciding who-gets-what social support networks …
The human decision-making that is creating human society’s who-gets-what crises can be depicted – within the Doughnut – as the Political Economic Decision-making for deciding who-gets-what, which is creating human society’s who-gets-what crises …
Political Economic Decision-making may be mapped as a decision-making system superimposed on the Human Enterprise …
... for deciding who-gets-what physical Things-We-Extract (like water) and physical Things-We-Use (like energy, food and housing) for meeting human physical needs …
... for deciding who-gets-what non-physical things-we-use (like health and education) for meeting human physical needs …
... and for deciding who-gets-what non-physical things (like income & work, peace & justice, political voice, social equity, gender equality and social support networks) for meeting human social needs …
Mapping the decision-making system – called “Political Economic Decision-making” – that’s creating human society’s who-gets-what crises allows you to design a simple educational process for averting human society’s who-gets-what crises.
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[1] “Politics” may be called the “who” part – and “economics” may be called the “what” part -- of Political Economic Decision-making for deciding who-gets-what.
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