Addressing Global Systems Failure Through An Integral Systems Paradigm for Sustainable Development

Current economic ontology development has failed to confront two important errors associated with historicism. Embracing the linearity of economic value being directly attributed to the labour applied to natural resources taken together with efficiency arguments used to justify monetary policy on both the micro (transaction) and macro (global trade), we know these legacies of the scientific method applied to economic systems have left the G-20 paralyzed to deal with structural failings evidenced from banking to business to economic policy. An exploration of the structural modalities that impair our current capacity for adaptation and alternative methods for accounting for value is the basis for this inquiry. Integral Accounting is proposed as a more suitable method to transition from scarcity-based market models to abundance-based modes of sustainable engagement.