Dan Klein says no, because of the ascendence of mathematics economics.
Even in the best, no-political-system disaster scenario.The era of disruptive BRIC ascendence is over.
The Digambara monastic community also experienced a revival of its ideals in the early 20th century with the ascendence of the great monk Acharya Shantisagar, from whom virtually all the 120 or so contemporary Digambara monks claim lineal descent.
In 1356 the Franciscan John of Roquetaillade (Rupescissa) prophesied that plagues, a revolt by the poor, and the appearance of Antichrists in Rome and Jerusalem would be followed in 1367 by the ascendence of a reforming pope, the election of a king of France as the Holy Roman emperor, and the onset of a millennial reign of peace and prosperity.
But just as the institutions of Bretton Woods, byproducts of a U.S.-dominated postwar economic order, are being challenged, so are OPEC and the I.E.A., their relevance questioned in a new era marked by the ascendence of Brazil, China, India and Russia and the relative stagnation of the West.
Lu Ming, a farmer, has given up waiting for the banana's ascendence.
Last season, when Jeremy Lin's ascendence highlighted an unselfish but ultimately temporary offense, the Knicks still ranked 20th in assists at 20.1 a game and 22nd in assist percentage, a statistic that charts the percentage of field goals generated by assists.
(Just ask John Kerry or John McCain, neither of whom returned, beaten, to the Senate and found themselves in ascendence).
Last month, in a widely read essay for the Guardian, I called out the prevailing, erroneous assumption of 2016 election coverage: that the white working class was fueling Trump's ascendence.
Trans-ascendence, or Levinas's transcendence, evinces the surprising characteristic of being both a common everyday event, a relation, and what he will call "Infinity".
Now, Levinas argues that the instant of trans-ascendence belongs to an order different from that of existence or Being: this is the order of the "Good beyond Being," already glimpsed by Platonism.
