The article assumes the complexity of the global crisis and analyses its causes and (ir)responsibility for it. Among many flawed political decisions, the author in particular exposes the responsibility of economic science and those influential economists who served the neoliberal ideology and its dogma on the omnipotent market, respectively. In accordance with this dogma, they defended and practised the irrelevancy of any viable social (state) regulation of economic life or market and furthermore dislodged any democratic deliberation in this area. The author argues for a viable new economic and social paradigm in favour of the idea of the human economy. Such a paradigm would imply that accumulating and creating wealth does not serve the goal but is a means to support a more just social cohesion which opposes the unreasonable increasing of the gap between rich and poor. This should be considered as an urgent challenge, which currently not only threatens capitalism, but the very evolutionary future of mankind.

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