Areas of Focus

• intellectual, cultural, ecological and economic potential in the area of conflict between regional and national interests
• the trend towards globalization
  Globalization
  Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
  
  
• possible scenarios for the city of Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
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Current Topics of the Club of Vienna

• Consequences of migration in Europe: opening of the east, transit, currents of traffic, economic consequences, social issues
  Social issues
  Social issues are controversial issues which relate to people's personal lives and interactions. Social issues are distinguished from economic issues...
  
  , culture; advantages and disadvantages
• Participatory decision-making in democracy
• Acceleration phenomena
• Non-material indicators of prosperity
• The new capitalism
  Capitalism
  Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism. There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...
  
  
• Europe in the 21st century – two differing speeds?
• Slaves and masters in information society
• Sustainability
  Sustainability
  Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
  
   as an investment principle
• Examine "The Reasons of Growth"

Literature

• Kapitalismus gezähmt? Weltreligionen und Kapitalismus (Hgg H. Knoflacher, K. Woltron, A. Rosik-Kölbl), 2006. Verlag echo media, Wien
• Wege in den Postkapitalismus (Hgg K. Woltron, H. Knoflacher, A. Rosik-Kölbl), 2004. Verlag edition selene, Wien
• Die Ursachen des Wachstums. Unsere Chancen zur Umkehr (Hgg R. Riedl, M. Delpos), 1996. Verlag Kremayr und Scheriau: Wien