| Stage | Nature | Labor | Capital | Technology | Leadership | Consumption | Coordination | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0: Communal: Premodern Awareness | Mother Nature | Self-sufficiency | Natural capital | Indigenous wisdom | Community | Survival | Community | Communal |
| 1.0: State-Centric: Mercantilism, State Capitalism; Traditional Awareness | Resource | Serfdom, slavery | Human capital | Tools: Agricultural Revolution | Authoritarian (sticks) | Traditional (needs-driven) | Hierarchy and control | State |
| 2.0: Free Market; Laissez-Faire; Ego-Centric Awareness | Commodity (land, raw materials) | Labor (commodity) | Industrial capital | Machines: first Industrial Revolution (coal, steam, railway) | Incentives (carrots) | Consumerism: mass consumption | Markets and competition | Private: exchange of private ownership in markets |
| 3.0: Social Market: Regulated; Stakeholder-Centric Awareness | Regulated commodity | Labor (regulated commodity) | Financial capital (externality-blind) | System-centric automation: second Industrial Revolution (oil, combustion engine, chemicals) | Participative (norms) | Selectively conscious consumption | Networks and negotiation | Mixed (public-private) |
| 4.0: Co-Creative: Distributed; Direct; Dialogic; Eco-Centric Awareness | Eco-system and commons | Social and business entrepreneurship | Cultural creative capital (externality-aware) | Human-centric technologies: third Industrial Revolution (renewable energy and information technology) | Co-creative (collective presence) | CCC: collaborative conscious consumption | ABC: awareness-based collective action | Shared access to services and common resources |
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