Preface.

This essay has been written keeping in mind all those people who, being dissatisfied with social reality, are investigating and looking for new ways.

It is especially meant for specialists and social researchers wishing to find new alternatives to the eternal blind alleys.

We must however advise that this essay does not claim to be either a comprehensive or scientific work; it is rather the basis for a possible future scientific research, much more extensive and specialized.

As a matter of fact, it is not an actually scientific research on economics; it is rather a consideration on economics as a science, and on the social possibilities of an «economic technology» which at present is already technically feasible.

The ideas we submit, and the technical suggestions which will be developed, are offered as an instrument for study and dialogue. We do not mean to present here a wholly complete doctrinal body, we want rather to excite criticism and co-operation, and to promote study, research and debate.

In a further essay we will deal more deeply with the possible social effects of our suggestions. Therefore, this essay is simply the technical-instrumental part of a larger and more complex body of thoughts on the possibilities open to the human race at the end of the XX century.

Notice.

The words which in the course of this essay are printed in bold-face, are technical words or expressions which not always correspond to the current meaning. Most of them are explained as soon as they appear. However, the Centre d'Estudis Joan Bardina is preparing a Systematic guide to univocal terms (Number 7 of this collection of works) where all the terms which require a deep etymological and linguistic research are methodically studied, in order to give them an exact univocal meaning.