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  1. The Most Economic, Socially Viable, and Environmentally Sustainable Alternative Energy.Willem H. Vanderburg - 2008 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 28 (2):98-104.
    The strengths and weaknesses of current energy planning can be attributed to the limited economic, social, and environmental contexts taken into account as a result of the current intellectual and professional division of labor. A preventive approach is developed by which the ratio of desired to undesired effects can be substantially improved. It takes into account supply-and demand-side options, renewable and nonrenewable sources, and net energy availability. Alternative energy must be considered within such a strategy, which carefully examines its effects (...)
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  • The Knowledge Bluff.Willem H. Vanderburg - 2007 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 27 (5):401-407.
    Our knowledge “system” is built up from disciplines and specialties as its components, which are “wired” by patterns of collaboration that constitute its organization. The intellectual autonomy of these components prevents this knowledge system from adequately accounting for what we have gradually discovered during the past 50 years: In human life, society, and the biosphere, everything is related to everything else. It has also created a dual mode of knowing and doing, one embedded in experience and culture and the other (...)
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  • The Antieconomy Hypothesis (Part 3): Toward a Solution.Willem H. Vanderburg - 2009 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 29 (1):66-74.
    Parts 1 and 2 explore the hypothesis that the application of mainstream economics has led to economies becoming uneconomic, which is as close as a social science can get to experimentally disproving its theories. One of the primary reasons for this failure is traced to the characteristics of the knowledge infrastructures of contemporary societies, which began to act as the most influential factor of production during the second half of the 20th century. A new economic strategy is developed based on (...)
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  • The Antieconomy Hypothesis (Part 1): From Wealth Creation to Wealth Extraction.Willem H. Vanderburg - 2009 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 29 (1):48-56.
    This article attempts to make some sense of what is happening to the role of money and the economy in our lives and in our communities. It shows that the picture provided by the discipline of economics makes no sense at all. Corporations and national economies have become wealth extractors as opposed to wealth creators. Only about 3% of daily financial flows around the globe have any meaningful connection to the production and distribution of goods and services or to direct (...)
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  • The Antieconomy Hypothesis (Part 2): Theoretical Roots.Willem H. Vanderburg - 2009 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 29 (1):57-65.
    The hypothesis of an antieconomy developed in part 1 is incommensurate with mainstream economics. This article explores three reasons for this situation: the limits of discipline-based scholarship in general and of mainstream economics in particular, the status of economists in contemporary societies, and the failure of economists to accept any responsibility for the consequences flowing from the application of their theories. Politicians are unable to resist their economic advisors who speak in the name of science, with the result that the (...)
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  • Rethinking Engineering Design and Decision Making in Response to Economic, Social, and Environmental Crises.Willem H. Vanderburg - 2009 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 29 (5):421-432.
    High levels of specialization have created knowledge with little or no “peripheral vision,” and the resulting “blind spots” are causing many “collisions” with human life, society, and the biosphere. Each discipline and specialty must be equipped with a “map” showing its connections to everything else, but especially the negative consequences that tend to be associated with its practices. Preventively oriented practices can improve the ratio of desired to undesired effects of design and decision making to create ways of life that (...)
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  • Confronting the Spirit of Our Age as a Creator of Chaos.Willem H. Vanderburg - 2006 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 26 (5):438-446.
    Contemporary civilization has created a fundamental contradiction between the intellectual approach to knowing and the technical approach to doing on the one hand, and the results of their application on the other. These approaches to knowing and doing begin with a process of abstraction that trades breadth for depth, while their application reveals a multitude of problems associated with ignoring the fact that everything is related to everything else in our world. Scientific disciplines and technical specialties create “pure” domains of (...)
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  • A Precautionary Approach to City Building: Interpreting the Relationship Between Urban Form and Mobility.Willem H. Vanderburg & Reihane Marzoughi - 2010 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 30 (2):86-95.
    The literature on the impact of urban form design on travel behavior reveals mixed results. Instead of interpreting this finding as an insufficient basis for warranting action, this article suggests that a precautionary approach be introduced. This approach should be based on two interdependent modes of knowing and doing to establish and evolve design exemplars in conjunction with discipline-based analytical exemplars. Even if trends, including the digitization of human life and society, peak oil and climate change turn out to have (...)
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