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Storytelling about the “Best Future” for the world is not an easy job. Let us call it a SWOT-analysis. On the one side, there are Weaknesses and Threats, on the other Strengths and Opportunities. Among Weaknesses and Threats we think for instance of global warming of the earth, of its over-population, of the AIDS tragedy and of the antiglobalization backlash versus globalization of the economy.
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Brauers, W.K. (2004). Introduction. In: Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society. Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, vol 73. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9178-2_1
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