Peace and democracy can provide only the foundation for stable and productive social life, not its fulfillment. For that, political security has to be complemented by economic security and a blossoming of individual and cultural potentials. Yet here our optimism seems to flag. Our thoughts of the new millennium do evoke images of greater peace and stability internationally, more individual freedom and democratic rights, growing international co-operation, exciting new technologies, increasing cultural interaction. But they also evoke images of more people and less work – meaning fewer jobs! No sooner has the threat of nuclear annihilation receded, than the specter of chronic unemployment and unrelenting poverty has risen to replace it, giving renewed justification to humanity’s deepest anx