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November 22, 2010 - The new book of
author Calvin Helin,
The
Economic Dependency Trap: Breaking Free to Self-Reliance,
is finding an international audience with enormous interest in the new ideas put
forth on how people and governments can escape the economic dependency trap.
Recently Mr. Helin returned from Washington DC where he spoke at the major event of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation Liberty Forum and Templeton Freedom Awards Ceremony. The event was held on November 9-10, 2010 at the beautiful and historic Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. There were hundreds of participants from think tanks from over 30 countries. The Freedom Dinner featured keynote speaker George Will, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist at the Washington Post and author (next year’s event will feature Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa).
The author's message of self-reliance was well-received by the world-wide delegates. Plans are also in the works to launch the books of Mr. Helin on a global platform and will likely be coming out in German and Spanish languages in the near future.
This event followed an earlier speaking engagement of the author in September in Cairns,
Australia in tropical North Queensland (on the Great Barrier Reef) called
Creating Futures 2010: Harnessing
Creativity
and Social Enterprise for Mental Health and Wellbeing (click on the attached
poster or adjacent photo for the YouTube posting on the event). The event was organized by the
Centre for Rural & Remote Health and had
as its purpose an outside-the-box view seeking a new perspective and new solutions to the mental health
and wellbeing problems that plague Australia's rural populations (particularly the
impoverished aboriginal population).
When you have a first world country where its indigenous population lives in third world conditions, where an Australian Aboriginal man has a 50% chance of making it to age 50, you have some serious problems facing a nation. The economic statistics and social pathologies that plague the population are horrific. Besides the horrendous misery and poverty that the Aboriginal population suffers, Australia will need to consider how the terrible conditions of their indigenous population will impact its economy given the greying demographics of their mainstream population and their dire need for skilled workers. One of the initiatives that is being worked on currently is to have the rights of their indigenous people entrenched into the Australian Constitution. Recently, the government of the Prime Minister of Australia, the Honourable Julia Gillard, announced the first steps to recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the constitution.
While high level political documents have there purpose, to have an immediate practical impact, attention will have to focussed on changing the dependency mindsets that have been conditioned into the indigenous population from well-meaning but misguided welfare policies. Australians will need to look at the kinds of solution proffered by author Helin in six times best selling book Dances with Dependency and his just released "revolutionary bible" on the topic The Economic Dependency Trap: Breaking Free to Self-Reliance. This new work expands on the theme introduced in Dances with Dependency explaining how the universal forms of economic dependency impact virtually every level of society and every country. Helin proposes groundbreaking, positive solutions in down-to-earth language every reader can relate to.
Most recently on
November 16, 2010 the author spoke
at the 7 Cities on Housing and Homelessness Conference
The Road Home
in Edmonton. NGO and government officials met
at a hugely oversubscribed event to look for solutions to the problem of
homelessness in seven of Alberta's largest cities. Author Helin presented
on the
The Economic Dependency Trap and emphasized how important it was to be
able to communicate directly with that impoverished population so they could
visualize their situation, how the got there, and options for how they could
move forward to build better lives. For article on the author's visit in the
Edmonton Sun click
Here or for video media coverage click
Here.
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