The current approach to public value creation lags on three fronts. Government, market and civil-society synergism is considered as the cotemporary approach for public action and creation of public goods and services (Thynne & Peters, 2015).
Nature as a resource was only being seen in at the turn of Industrial Revolution with the Market pricing approach. Whilst, no tragedy of commons (Cox, 1985) and other forms of sociality were commonplace in several cultures worldwide and living was seen in tandem with the natural world and the flora and fauna was respected. This wrong turn was as the political-e conomic spaces also took the tragedy of commons (Hardin, 1968) as their fundamental assumption and also the future generations were taught of self-interest as something very fundamental to human behaviour. Organizations limit themselves to th e bou nd ari es of wo rk (A hrn e & Br un sso n, 201 1) an d pe opl e’s (Ca nov an, 200 5) li fe es pec ia ll y th ose at th e bot to m of th e soc io -ec ono mi c pyr am id is bec om in g mi ser abl e Freedom (Dewey, 1939 Fromm, 1941:1969 Harari, 2018) is at risk and as we usher into an era wherein slavery seems to be ushering in (Andersson, Lindebaum & Prezts, 2018) and hence democratic principles and values come to be challenged. Debates about meanin gful work arise as that again becomes a tradable service in the marketpla ce.
The world finds it at risk (Beck, 2009) as the top 1% families (Carney & Nason, 201 8) pr osper an d the bottom 99% (OXFAM, 2 018) are at their helm. While the origins of totalitarianism (Arendt, 1951 Hagtvet, 2001) is an old one, it surfaces in the current context in the form of new forms of media (Bradshaw & Howard, 2018 Castell, Etter, & Nielsen, 2016 Safiullah, Pathak, Singh & Anshul, 2017 Kumar & Ranjan, 2014) being employed by the s tate (Sharma & Rao, 2016 Hahl, Kim & Sivan, 2018 ) and the private governments (Anderson, 2017) and as we usher into an era of “surveillance capitalism” (Zuboff, 2019).
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