{"id":4823,"date":"2015-05-03T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vince-inc.com\/vincent\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2017-03-26T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T13:30:39","slug":"cibs-conference-2017-the-economics-of-post-factual-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vince-inc.com\/vincent\/?p=4823","title":{"rendered":"CIBS Conference 2017 | The Economics of Post-Factual …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Center for Information and Bubble Studies 2017 Conference<\/a>
\nThe Carlsberg Academy
\n<\/strong>February 9, 2017 Main Conference Day<\/p>\n

Press release: 20.01.2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the emerging post-factual society in which factual truth and scientific evidence are losing authority, political deliberation becomes detached from reality. But reality is not only a matter of truth and falsity of theories and statements. The grand challenges we are facing in practice are also all too real. The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently announced ten global challenges: food security, inclusive growth, employment, climate change, global finance, the internet, gender equality, global trade, long-term investment, and health care. In particular “misinformation” on the web was recently added and “sits at the centre of a constellation of technological and geopolitical risks ranging from terrorism to cyber attacks and the failure of global governance.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To have a fighting chance in the face of these challenges both politics and scientific research must:<\/p>\n

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  1. track the facts and be submitted to the test of the real world and<\/li>\n
  2. address the major real world issues with the practical aim of solving them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That\u2019s the central question of this international meeting of minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    How to reconfigure current democratic discourse and the economic system to meet the grand challenges of our time.<\/em><\/p>\n