ABSTRACT
The complexity of the present conjuncture reaches a level beyond the capacity of all political regimes and exceeding the established configuration of the human and social sciences. Epistemic innovation is a solution to this dangerous deadlock, a search for a theory and concepts designed to identify the critical factors of the present situation and analyze their connections. Because these factors belong to distinct ontologies, they generate, profile, and even constitute as a specific level of social reality. What is the nexus between institutional reforms or economic growth, and climate change? Analyzing this conjuncture, explaining what is at stake, and inducing from this analysis some responses require the construction of a theory constantly tested and reworked in the following chapters. This theory’s goal is to analyze social economic systems according to a series of concepts, models, and paradigms. Social systems analysis is a hybrid reconstruction of theories developed by specialists in different fields, mainly Humberto Maturana, Niklas Luhmann, and Danilo Martuccelli. The main purpose of these theories is to fathom the internal articulation between a social economic system and its ecology within the biophysical environment.
