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.

New Book by Francisco Javier Carrillo!

Degrowth through Knowledge-Based Development

Social Flourishing in the Anthropocene

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state. In doing so, it addresses the literature gap on continued social improvement within a postgrowth economic and cultural paradigm.
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CLIMATE STRIPES

Representing global temperature rise over two centuries.

In 2024, the world exceeded the 1.5°C threshold for the first time in any one year. 
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that there is an 80% likelihood that the annual average global temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5°C for at least one of the next five years. 

Check out these two groundbreaking publications:

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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.
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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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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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