{"product_id":"2940045163828","title":"The Role of Productivity in Community Success: The Jesuit-Guaraní Cultural Confluence","description":"\u003cp\u003e(Note: This material appeared previously in \"Chum For Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters\" by the same author.)\u003cbr\u003eThis historical essay, drawn from the deepest jungles of Uruguay in South America, examines the creation of a flourishing culture and economy that lasted for almost two centuries. It explores the guided development of a virtuous web of social and economic controls that mixed the philosophy of Catholic Jesuit missionaries with the traditions of the native Guaraní peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unprecedented experiment in progressive community-building may have once created that rarest of cultural treasures – a functional and stable utopia... ended only by outside pressures of conquest and exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a living parable for our changing world, now suffering from seemingly-intractable political, cultural and economic turmoil… and struggling to be born into a tenuous future on uncertain threads of hope and despair. Rapid introduction of technology, educational systems, health care systems and social order have succeeded before – balancing competition and consumption in a new kind of community – and might be made to work again as we seek to create our own \"new economy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this startling synthesis, Mr. Satterlee brings together and introduces:\u003cbr\u003e• historical records,\u003cbr\u003e• the social theories of the Catholic Church,\u003cbr\u003e• the management theories of Peter Drucker,\u003cbr\u003e• the psycho-social theories of Don Beck’s Spiral Dynamics Integral, and\u003cbr\u003e• the economics ideas of William Lewis and the McKinsey Global Institute on “the power of productivity.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Satterlee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108039737584,"sku":"2940045163828","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045163828_p0.jpg?v=1763674407","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045163828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}