LWPI's Core Values

Life-world Policy Institute's Core Values

LWPI is founded on 10 core values derived from the Philosophical arc that created the institute. These values function as a brief manifesto for the institute.

  1. Sound Finance is the precondition for effective public policy
    2. Public finance functions as the root of effective public policy. From good financial policy, an array of public goods will flow. While bad financial policy will produce a slew of harms

  2. Long-Termism
    3. With careful forethought and planning, decisions which come at very little cost today can be immensely valuable in the future.

  3. Anthropocentrism
    4. Abstract systems such and technology should serve human ends.

  4. Technical financial expertise does not supercede Democratic will
    5. Public Finance exists in a delicate balance between inhuman, top-down, technocracy and human, bottom-up democracy.

  5. Government hould intervene more proactively
    6. The greatest harms suffered today are due to a deficiency of intervention, rather than an excess.

  6. Critical-Liberalism
    7. Liberalism is the only stable and just foundation for a state and its policy. We should refine Liberalism through critique but must hold Steadfast to Liberalism's unmatched value, truth and success.

  7. New Economic Patriotism
    8. The value of preferencing local community (either nationally, regionally or within a sub-community) is often disregarded. choices in favour of the local should be made when it is economically rational.

  8. Investment over Austerity
    9. The only way out of a flat economy is through spending to stimulate growth. Austerity has done nothing but harm both qualitatively and quantitatively.

  9. Technology has bent the political spectrum into a horseshoe
    10. ideas of left and right on a flat and oppositional spectrum are outdated tools of analysis. Technicity versus anti-technicity better describes contemporary politics in which the anti-technical will support either far-left or far-right, while the technical clan allign themselves with middle of the road dry solutions to maintain 'business as usual'.

  10. Technology threatens democratic sovereignty
    11. Social media, in particular AI driven algorithmic information-provision technologies have enabled foreign actors to penetrate British politics like never before. Hostile actors and states such as Russia actively work to divide and destabilise this nation.