For 190 thousand years human life depended upon the bounties of nature. Agriculture, the imitation of nature by humans, evolved for five millenniums before it could sustain complex societies. In the resulting archetype of industrial civilization, society forms the base that drives production - a reversal of the causal relationship between society and production.
In this session of “Bazm-e-Tareekh-O-Adab”, Syed Sardar Ali will talk about his general theory of production, society and civilization and link it with Pakistan puzzle in light of big history.
About the Speaker:
Syed Sardar Ali did his F.Sc. from Govt. College Lahore and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his first master’s degree in International Relations from Japan and worked for Sony Corporation and the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo. He later earned Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard where he was a student of Prof. Samuel Huntington. Upon graduation he joined the World Bank in Washington, DC and worked in the Financial and Private Sector Unit in the Europe and Central Asia region until 2002. Sardar Ali, who runs a number of businesses in Islamabad and Lahore, is the Chairperson of Crescent Foundation.
19 авг 2024