Graeme Donald Snooks is a systems theorist and stratologist who has developed a general dynamic theory to explain complex living systems. His resulting "dynamic-strategy theory" has been employed to analyse the fluctuating fortunes of life over the past 4,000 million years and of human society over the past 2 myrs; to analyse contemporary economic problems ; to explore socio-political issues ; to analyse the emergence, operation, and malfunction of the mind; and to make scientific predictions about the future. New discoveries emerging from Snooks' publications include: existential schizophrenia, strategic frustration, strategic selection, the growth-inflation curve, the strategy function, the logological constant, the Snooks–Panov Vertical, technological paradigm shifts, the Solar Revolution, and, most importantly, the strategic logos. His body of work challenges the existing paradigms of orthodox economics, climate-mitigation economics, Marxism, neo-Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, self-organisation theory, and all other supply-side systems.'' For twenty-one years, from 1989 to 2010, Snooks was the foundation Coghlan Research Professor of Economics in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University. Currently he is the Executive Director of both the Institute of Global Dynamic Systems and IGDS Books in Canberra. He was educated at Mount Lawley Senior High School, the University of Western Australia, and the Australian National University. Snooks has been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , and Fellow of the Russian Academy of Humanities.
Books and articles
Snooks has published 30 books, including: Depression and Recovery, Domesday Economy , Economics Without Time, Historical Analysis in Economics, Portrait of the Family within the Total Economy, Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?,, The Dynamic Society, The Ephemeral Civilization, The Laws of History, Longrun Dynamics, Global Transition, The Global Crisis Makers, The Collapse of Darwinism, The Selfcreating Mind, The Coming Eclipse, or The Triumph of Climate Mitigation Over Solar Revolution, Dead God Rising. Religion and Science in the Universal Life-System.,, The Death of Zarathustra. Notes on Truth for the Risk-Taker, Ark of the Sun: the improbable voyage of life, Ultimate Reality & its Dissidents, and Time's Gateway: a personal quest for ultimate reality. Snooks' recent book, Ark of the Sun provides an overview of his thinking over five decades on the dynamics of life and human society and reveals the underlying reality of life - the strategic logos - which is the ultimate complex living system. Ultimate Reality & its Dissidents provides a unique philosophy of life based on his realist general dynamic theory. And Time's Gateway shows how these ideas emerged over the past fifty years. He is currently exploring two major issues. First, the existential dangers of metaphysical systems of thought to the survival of humanity, together with the corrective contribution of realist thinking. And second, the contribution of DNA testing to the exploration of societal dynamics over the past 60,000 years. Articles on the theory of complex living systems have been published by Snooks in Advances in Space Research, Complexity , and Social Evolution & History. In a recent article - "The Triumph of Trump and the failure of the intellectuals" - he applies the dynamic-strategy theory to the recent US Presidential election and provides suggestions for the type of dynamic strategy that the USA would need to pursue in order to "make America great again" and to position itself at the forefront of the forthcoming technological paradigm shift. Snooks's most recent articles include: "Exploding the great singularity myth", which critically examines the scientific credentials of the futuristic concept known as the Technological Singularity - an issue that can be traced back to his seminal book The Dynamic Society ; "Exploding the Great Climate Mitigation Myth", which explores the existential dangers of massive intervention in the economy; "Fight the Virus, Not the Economy! How to Avoid the 'Interventionist Storm'", which discusses the dangers of complete economic shut-down; "COVID-19 and the Great Lockdown Fiasco", which shows that the emerging 'lockdown depression' is the outcome of a failure of strategic leadership in Western Civilization that has been emerging since the late 20th century ; and "Will the world ever recover from the Great Lockdown? Counting the costs of waging war on the economy", which estimates and analyses the negative impact of massive government intervention on world real GDP and GDP per capita in both the shortrun and longrun.
