Editorial

Citation

(2007), "Editorial", Humanomics, Vol. 23 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/h.2007.12423aaa.001

Editorial

Hey academics of the modern era! What have you truly contributed to the field of ethics, society and science such that academia can be driven up to a higher level of excellence in studying the heart beat of those who have been left out of the academic fervor? – Those who are socially deprived, the destitute, addressing the demand for social justice, equality and empowerment for the marginalized.

These ethical concerns become postmodernist questions when they are studied under scientific lens. Thereby, the methodology of science – the new postmodern epistemological way of inquiring on the relevance of the scientific method bearing upon human existence, extracting the language of science, markets and society with deep ingrains of ethics and morality, with institutional and strategic transformation goals – becomes a significant scientific research project.

Humanomics is now a 25 years venture in the above aspirations of a scientific research program catering to the understanding and scientific explanation in the deepest of ways – and invoking the heart beat of those who care for such issues and problems as of ethics and morality, institutions and a new episteme in scientific theories and their applications. These concerns have been deflected from mainstream thinking on science and society. Humanomics invites the serious academics and practitioners to reflect upon such issues, needs and actions of the postmodern times.

The papers presented in this issue bring forth certain issues spanning cultural dimensions, economics and society. Yet the ingrain of a common message of goodness is in all. It spans from the cultural domains of Muslim Oman, the historical ethical thoughts of Kautilya up to American dominant culture in that part of the world at this time. The message is yet common to all. This proves that there has always been a drive to study the social heart beat of many. Yet science, society and economics have never truly found a methodology that will address this essential fact.

Humanomics is a study of scientific treatment of ethics, morality and values from interdisciplinary points of views. Such values are treated as endogenous force within rigorous scientific analysis. Humanomics thus establishes a serious scientific and ethical frontier of thought in postmodern academia.