In April of 1968, 30 people, including scientists, educators, economists, humanists, industrialists, and government officials, met at the Academia dei Lincei in Rome. The meeting was called by Dr. Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist and...

A group of leading economists and scientists which studied the effects of economic growth from 1968 onwards. Their study of poverty, environmental issues, urbanization, unemployment, inflation and the nature of growth led them to set out the conditions...

A group of interested professionals, of diverse disciplines, set up in 1968 to study the relationships among various components of the human social systems. The ultimate aims are predictions of the results of present policies and formulations of...

The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political...

BETWEEN 1983 and 1985 teams of researchers went to Asia, Africa and Latin America to look at the work of the non-governmental organisations, also known as "the dirty-fingers brigade". NGOS are community-based movements intended to improve the lot of the rural poor; they...

THE GLADIATOR The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves By Alan Baker St. Martin's. 223 pp. $22.95Last year's hugely popular film "Gladiator" was fiction to its core -- a tear-jerker for guys, and not half so good as Stanley Kubrick's 1960...