The World Capital Institute (WCI) is an independent international Think Tank whose purpose is to further the understanding and application of knowledge as the most powerful leverage of development.


WELCOME TO THE KNOWLEDGE CITIES WORLD SUMMIT 2023!

Adapting to Climate-Change through Regenerative Transformation of Cities and Regions

Lake Constance | Lindau, Inselhalle
International Conference |November 28-30, 2023

New Book!

A Modern Guide to Knowledge

From Knowledge Economies to Knowledge in the Anthropocene

This book aims at providing an integrated theory of knowledge and value while facing the existential challenges of the Anthropocene.

Check out these two groundbreaking publications:

Book

Knowledge For The Anthropocene

A Multidisciplinary Approach

With human-induced environmental impacts disrupting human life in deeper ways and at a wider scale than anything previously experienced, this multidisciplinary book looks at the ways that current knowledge bases seem inadequate to help us deal with such realities.
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Book

City Preparedness For The Climate Crisis

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Exploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements.
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Blog

See the recent posts
August 18, 2022

What is neoliberalism? A political scientist explains the use and evolution of the term

Neoliberalism is a complex concept that many people use – and overuse – in different and often conflicting ways. So, what is it, really?
April 23, 2022

Varoufakis Discussing Crypto, the Left & Technofeudalism with Evgeny Morozov – CRYPTO SYLLABUS long interview

The following interview with Yanis Varoufakis I chose for an initial discussion in this Think Tank on Alternative Economics.
June 24, 2020

A prophet of the Anthropocene

…Particularly bitter is moral knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil...ethics is bound to contain a prophetic element.