About Us

CSQ Research is a Civic Science Fact Tank and Public Library, Scientific Journal, and essential Civics, Economy, and Financial Advisory

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CSQ Research is home to CSQ Economy Doubling ETFs, MEMS A.I. (Civic Science Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning), Civic Science Magazine, two engineering plans for World Peace, the World’s Largest econometric library WAOH,  the science of Transition Economics, the Civic Science Book of Knowledge (CS-BOK), The Book – an update of the 1,700-year-old scientific Bible, ACT, TASK, and much more …

CSQ is our Not-for-Profit Fact-Tank, Worthwhile Industries is our Do-Tank that builds transition engineering supply chains, and InvestCS is our 90 Bank thesis finance firm – all headquartered in Toronto, Canada

We build Scientific Societies that Double Economies and guarantee World Peace

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Our Mission is Big Picture …

We cover all the bases of a Sustainable, Successful Society, considering every measure in a way that ensures important measures and education are never ignored, and ensuring that unimportant or harmful measures and policies are always called out and minimized. 

Economies are Driven – to advance or to collapse; and education never collapses a nation, while harmful ideologies will every time. Economies are high-transaction systems, counting trillions of back-and-forth exchanges every day. If you don’t ensure that a majority of those transactions are advancing your nation, then you will collapse as a mathematical certainty.

Mission Statement

CSQ Research’s Civic Science Faculty provides governance for policy decisions and education in Investment (Finance), Government, Economics, Engineering, Business, Academia, and Law – that build the productions and productivity we all need for reliable human advance

Our Program Goals include:

• CSQ Programs must be worthwhile – by Aristotle’s definition:

“A meaningful life is built through purposeful actions (Worthwhile Projects) which reliably lead to good lives within sustainably advancing communities.”

Abridged Messerly, Aristotle, Politic 322 BCE

• Leadership – sheppards human advance with:
  • Systemic Empathy (Good – in teaching, actions, and Law)
  • Respect (of family and neighbours)
  • Creation: building strong economies (double original size), strong and resilient self-sufficiency, all basic needs, productivity and production, strong social contracts, democracies, communities, schools, education, courseware, and families
    • Every problem is solvable – report “WHAT” needs to happen AND also “HOW” to fix the problem; World Peace, World Hunger
    • We can build anything
    • Science Fiction – is just a technology project away

• Approach:
  • Proven best practices – GL-BOK Methods and Programs are 100% science – 0% theory, Leed, Sustain, Transition Economics, ITSM, Roberts
  • Identify, Work, and Solve the problem, and the problem’s cause – not just symptoms
  • Remove Collapse Motivators – inhibitors of human advance that are causal to economic and social collapse

• CSQ Research isn’t futuristic – There is nothing 100 years away here; we build resilient assembly lines using today’s tech and engineering processes

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Our History – How does CSQ Research build Scientific Societies?

Our National Leadership Faculty’s Scientific Societies Programme is built from the research of eight major theses.

2014 – CSQ Common Sense 101 was a high-school course for Grade 10 students. Common Sense is the social benefit of our decisions; the Common Sense 101 course – explains to kids how to vote (in democratic settings) and how to build a Good Life and a sustainable society.

The course sets lessons using a secular, non-political, and scientific approach – while covering essential topics of philosophy contained in every bible – of essential Good, Empathy, the Golden Rule, Ten Commandments, Seven Deadly Sins, Jubilees (Economic Resets and balance), alongside time management, stress management, speed reading, memory improvement, mourning, and other life skill-building topics not covered in our curriculums today.

CSQ Common Sense 101 identifies all of the worthwhile social, economic, and engineering projects needed to build Aristotle’s Good Life from a global, country, community, school, friends, and family, right down to an individual’s point-of-view.

Thirty-eight major projects were identified as needed to build a sustainable society and future, and then these projects were sequenced chronologically to create the CSQ 100-Year Plan.

With this plan in hand, the cherry-picking of just those projects that were needed to deliver an easily scalable World Peace everywhere – was straightforward.

2015 – World Peace – The Transition is our first engineering plan for World Peace – and explained a United Nations-led plan to build the #WPProject assembly-lines needed to build sustainable societies globally – and, as with all of our books, it also explained “How” to build the technology, trade networks, and policy – by Aristotle’s Right Plan approach.

CSQ Research is also home to the SUSTAIN Project Management Method, a powerful best-practice approach for building large, complex change reliably. Every project had:

Discovery (WHAT – is needed?) -> Design (HOW – will we Implement it?) ->  BUILD -> Monitor & Life Cycle Manage

Transition Economics

2016 – Transition Economics – The definition of a new science to explain what was needed to repair our economy. TE established that we needed a new evidence-based science in Economics, which we called Transition Economics. The Transition Economics Maturity Models,  RAI – Renewable Automation Index, and The CMI – Country Management Index were important rough estimates of what was needed (The Requirements) of Transition Economics.

Transition Engineering and Civic Science

2018 – “End of War – Managing Mature Capitalisms” mapped all of the requirements of a sustainable Scientific Society, and produced a fully designed solution Civic Science we called Transition Economics. A second finance-driven engineering plan for World Peace was called Worthwhile Industries in a plan that recruited our financial industries and econometric science to build reliably successful Scientific Societies in every nation.

TEP Charts (Transition Economics Proofs) are introduced here, as was the World at our Hands library which today showcases the growing shared Standard of Research and Knowledgebase for Transition Economics. WAOH was the online template for the Civic Science Book of Knowlege that would come later in 2021 with “The Book” and contained all of the stats for any policy – as well as the first Social Contract Product (SCP) Report – a credible replacement for the grossly misleading GDP.

The ACT Parties Thesis now permits us to vote for reliable human advance, Central Planning (a Right Plan of proven policy and autonomous supply chain technology infrastructure programs), and Human Rights that insist on education instead of indoctrination – see TASK (sp/TASSC) – The Academic Sustainable Societies Challenge.

Worthwhile Industries and Worthwhile Ventures Capital, became our second engineering plan for World Peace in 2018. An end to homelessness and world hunger and want, Worthwhile Industries are the companies and capital financing contracts required to build Human Advance through responsible National Leadership.

The Social Contract Product Report (The SCP), and Social Contract Loss Reports began in 2018, which explain every nation’s ranking for Social Contract – and therefore Productivity, and it estimates the cost to every economy for weak Social Contracts. The SCP proves that strong Social Contracts build strong economies and that the opposite is true as well. SCP also explains that Social Contract was swept away from our curriculums by unscientific ambiguous and truthfully meaningless terms, ideologies, and theories, from Marxism, Neoliberalism, Wealth Theory,  Micro and Macroeconomics Theory, and so on – to the very great detriment of large-population democracies whose constitutions failed to protect voters from clear lying.

The scientific terms that we use are explained in our Glossary, the  USE CASE for the International Monetary System, which disambiguates and standardizes all ACTORs, INPUTs, and OUTPUTs of an economic policy decision-making process.

2019 – WAOH World at our Hands Econometric Library – the World’s largest context and evidence-based econometric library

2020 – MEMS A.I was created to ensure the scientific decision supports needed to double economies reliably were within easy reach

We live on a planet where just 20% are assured the basic human rights of a strong social contract – food, clean water, energy, transportation, reliable sufficient incomes, security, healthcare, and shelter; 90% do not have a pension worldwide. MEMS permits us to build smart targets and the projects needed to make a positive difference quickly, reliably, and also profitably – for investors.

2021

The need for a National Leadership Faculty was identified and research work was rebranded to The Scientific Societies Programme.

The National Leadership Book of Knowledge (GL-BOK) – The Reference Guide for the 100% evidence-based science of National Leadership

The Book – A civics textbook and social Owner’s Manual, “The Book” is the first scientific update of the scientific-by-observation Bible (Biblia Vulgata) since 425 AD.

Ta Biblia (“The Books” in Greek) was an update of the 763 BC Hebrew Bible, which was an update of the 1763 BC Code of Hammurabi, which updated Constitutions, Laws, and Bills of Rights from our first civilizations in Iraq (Babylon and Mesopotamia) and Kingdoms of Egypt and the Middle East.

2022

MEMS’ Double Your Economy Challenge begins …

Constitutional Reform – The Case Study that proves one Constitution is scientifically better than all others

Education Reform – Our Notice to Academic Institutions Case Study and TASK Programs kicked off

Threshold Analytics – was added to Transition Economics

WAOH – the World’s largest evidence-based context-validated econometric library, received a considerable facelift.

2023

Civic Science Magazine – The CSQ Research Scientific Journal

Leadership Training and Certification programming started in 2023

TE Linear Regression Analytics (TE-LR) – Was added to Transition Economics, along with a status report indicating that no important correlations could be identified after four years of inclusion in the TE Standard’s API and Graphic publications

WAOH FAQs – Truth for Search Engines … see FAQs

CSQ Research becomes a registered Public Library – Symbol OTWA

2024 – A year of Rebranding

Civic Science Rebranding: In 2024, CSQ Research is changing all Strategic Global Leadership branding to Civic Science – in recognition of our consistent findings that have proven that Nationalism is the far more important focus for any nation. We hope that the change will take focus away from Globalist groups that have only fumbled human advance for decades now. See “Transition Economics” for more 2024 initiatives – like “Responsible Ratios”.

2025

Our most important year yet. In 2025, we will usher in the CSQ Economy Doubling ETFs that Feed the Right Wolf with Investment Vehicles designed in data science to double economies reliably. S&P 500-based Investments that outperform the Indexes while improving DrawDowns (steep losses) are the hallmarks of the most important new financial products, rolling out to 90 countries and economies – beginning in 2025.

 

2026 – AI and The Greatest Philosopher World Tour

Surprising A.I. advances in 2026 slowed down our InvestCS entry into trading and ETF arenas, because it permitted us to greatly expand our technology lineup and marketing reach.

We were finally able to create the CSQ Common Sense Test, to offer a first Greatest Philosopher World Tour, and to create an inaugural  TASK University Rankings list.

And much more to come …

 

 

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Our Founder

CSQ Research’s Chair Edward Tilley is also the Founding Father of Civic Science, and probably our era’s greatest Philosopher owing to his new data science work that assures reliable Good, Respect, and Human Advance in every country. Find Edward’s Amazon Author page here …

Why the greatest philosopher? Like Aristotle, Edward Tilley builds measurable science in Civics. Edward’s evidence-based Civic Science can advance humanity and world peace while doubling economies reliably. Where 95% of philosophy is unscientific, irrelevant ramblings over mankind’s reason d’etre, the truly important 5% of philosophers presented measurable systems and solutions and were the great experts of their day.

Building responsible Civic Leadership is not an easy task in any era. Edward had to refuse to follow and do as instructed – by consensus, by academia, by hiring networks in the workplace, by government politicians, and against constant media propaganda. The theory and harmful ideology taught by every Western university are so fictitious and systemic, that insisting on hard science that reliably builds ADVANCE was impossible. Not a single major international University would allow a new science to be read – citation. while search engines and AI GPT CoPilots block new science actively, at Wikipedia, at Quora, Google, Microsoft, and even X today.

Mr. Tilley’s sciences explained Truth – in all matters of Civics and Civilization, just as others have explained natural science in an observably truthful, measurable, and repeatable manner. Transition Economics and Transition Engineering eliminate poverty, ensure human rights, measure and prevent collapse, and assure national monetizable productions while shepherding reliable human advance.

Today, we can transition to evidence-based Civic Science fact and truth, instead of harmful theory still taught by Western Universities in 90% collapsing nations. With performance data being collected by 220 sovereign countries and made available to everyone from many collection centers online. Our computers, computer languages, visualization libraries, and A.I. machine learnings are finally fast enough and of sufficient maturity and quality to make Civic Science Performance Dashboards, and important Finance Investment, not only possible – but also fun and profitable to work with and learn. See MEMS AI and CSQ Economy Doubling ETFs.

CSQ Research’s Chairman is a builder, a disrupter, a leader, and another Elon Musk-like individual, alive at a time when academics, economists, and even national leaders are followers, without the powers of introspection needed to realize they currently follow false theory and harmful ideology 100%. Today’s 40-year dumb-down of universities devalues Western businesses and governments while every country in the world loses $4 billion per DAY (the USA loses $30 billion daily) correctably.

A 20+ year Adoption and Denial Cycle is the unhappy lot of most builders of new sciences in history. Einstein’s Special Relativity was blocked for 20-years, Bill James (Sabermetrics) was blocked the same, and international hero Alan Turing was chemically castrated to suicide just nine years after winning World War II.  With our current anti-expert indoctrination, who can say what other amazing sciences have simply passed from existence over time – due to our systemic ignoring of the founders of new science?

It’s a great irony that we store seeds in billion-dollar bunkers, while completely ignoring Human Capital and contribution that can save $4 billion per day in each of 220 countries. Our most important resource is people; not things. For 1000 years through the Dark Ages, Europe recycled lead from Roman pipes because the lessons of how to manufacture the metal were lost, and this legacy of similar “gaps” still passes for education in our schools today. Did you know Feminism causes Autism – and the greatest cull in human history? That humans evolved from frogs which could change their gender by changing their testosterone levels? Or, that today’s political Right Libertarian Neoliberalist Wealth Theory created the Great Depression in just 8 years in the 1920s?

Edward Tilley’s Legacy will be the sciences and tools that transition humanity beyond harmful ideology, indoctrination, and collapse; toward reliable national success and human advance, with game-changing contributions to education in faculties of law, education, government, policy, business, finance, philosophy, and religion.

 

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Programs

Frequently Asked Questions

See also WAOH FAQ

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What does “CSQ” mean?

CSQ – Common Sense Quotient – Common Sense is the social benefit of our decisions. A man or woman with a high IQ and high EQ can be a President or a Serial Killer as easily; but a high-CSQ individual – is a leader. “CSQ” was defined in our 2014 CSQ Common Sense 101 Civics Course for high-schools. Take the CSQ Test here – (coming very soon). A High-CSQ individual is one who makes decisions that benefit society and can be called worthwhile as well.

 

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What does CSQ Research build?

CSQ Research builds curricula for the emerging academic Faculty of National Leadership; Challenges for academic, government, finance, and industry leads;  Certification Programs; theses, articles, and courseware in Epistemology (Systems of Education), Government Policy, and Economic Research.

Through our do-tank, Worthwhile Industries Campuses and Worthwhile Ventures Capital, we build solution companies that produce 70% of the planet’s GDP as needed by our Social Contracts – so food, pharmaceuticals, forestry, manufacturing, housing, construction, and more

We build Intellectual Property (IP) in robotics, cross-industry automation, clean energy solutions (Cirenergy, GridBots, and FuelBots), and worthwhile solutions that build opportunity and Good Lives in the industries that build strong, self-sufficient economies

 

 

Click on an icon below to virtually tour a Worthwhile Industry

        

How quickly are we making Projects and Changes happen?

In World Peace – The Transition, we explained that “science fiction” takes just an engineering project to turn almost anything into a reality. How quickly do all of these changes happen? The Driverless Car took just two years to develop and pilot – and at the time of this writing, those pilot cars have completed many millions of accident-free driving miles

Worthwhile CAMPUSes build Worldville 1.0 within just two to five years, similarly – and wait until you see “Oasis” – which will take perhaps just ten years. * (Timing is constrained by capital financing only)

At CSQ Research, we run projects of tremendous value that can be realized very quickly. We run high-performance, high-quality projects via our SUSTAIN Method, and we certify our project teams as well. SUSTAIN is a well-defined process proven in engineering offices that run 1000+ engineering projects annually

The complex work of building a bright future is just another day at the office for us

In the end, just nineteen projects were needed to build World Peace – Six Social Projects and Thirteen Engineering Projects. #WPProjects and Worthwhile Campuses are a mitigation plan for one of these nineteen engineering projects.

How do #WPProjects and Worthwhile Campuses differ?

#WPProjects – assigns the 250 engineering projects needed country-by-country. Each national engineering team then robotically automates this basic need of food, shelter, energy, education, and transportation.

Worthwhile Industries – allows financial industries and national investment that builds, and profits from, the sustainable solution companies which are needed to build a strong social contract – and a strong economy – in every nation

Never Futuristic

At a point in the very distant future, a self-powered Replicator can be invented and installed in every home. Until then, our assembly lines and delivery systems meet the needs of strong social contracts, self-sufficiency, and good lives.

Everything CSQ Research recommends, designs, and builds aligns with a Right Plan – a Strategic Plan of worthwhile projects that build Good Lives and a Sustainable Society.

The Right Plan is the one whose ends, means, practical thinking, and purposeful action result in a Good Life. A life full of things you need – and not necessarily a life full of everything you want. With a little luck, goods in body and soul, and by making a habit of good choices that reflect the moral virtues of temperance, courage, and justice, a Good Life should be sought and found.

Abridged from Aristotle’s Politic 322 BC  (Messerly, 2013)

Worthwhile Industries CAMPUSes are a Do-tank; presented to commercial investors internationally by our Worthwhile Ventures Capital organization.

Common CSQ Terms

In CSQ terminology, most:

Actions or Changes – are treated as Projects and are recommended to follow a Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodology. In broad terms, the four steps of a project are: Discovery -> Design -> Implementation -> Revision Management

Communities – the smallest measure of a community is a country.

This definition ensures that multiple communities do not defensively compete within a single country. We are a planet of 200+ Sovereign Nations, each with important cultures – that seems like sufficient diversity. Countries administer their WP Transition Projects while a central administrator – presently CSQ Research and eventually the United Nations – monitors and coordinates the 250+ projects.

What is a “Good Life”?

The term “Good Life” was used by Aristotle 2500 years ago to describe the American Dream – and it is an important building block for sustainable societies that we as CSQ work very hard to build. A Good Life is a life with all basic human rights as described in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, as well as others, and it includes food, shelter, energy, security, love, family, education, healthcare, transportation, and opportunity. A life full of the things we need, but not necessarily all of the things that we might want.

What is a Meaningful Life?

Ah, yes, the meaning of life. This is, not surprisingly, an important discussion. Scholars and Philosophers have consolidated writings for a lifetime, and many summarize it down to this.

A Meaningful Life is one spent building projects and in pursuits that lead to a sustainable society.

Having happiness or religion does not make a life meaningful, as neither of these in themselves requires action nor meaningful results. Suggested reading is the Meaning of Life Chapters in World Peace – The Transition and CSQ Common Sense 101 

Love of children is love of self. This makes families and community the higher-priority aspirations of any meaningful life.

What is Freedom?

Aristotle described a worthwhile, meaningful life full of things we need, and not necessarily all of the things we want. Liberte is not freedom; no one has the right or freedom to remove the freedom of healthy contributing neighbours, so our definition of Freedom at CSQ Research will align with the scientific Bible’s explanation:

Freedom – permits young families to have children at age 20 if they wish, while attending higher education too – from within a family home of their own, that they can afford with incomes that they can reliably find by themselves. All of this is possible without saving for years before young adults can pay off student loans and then afford a home and children in their 30s.

This is a freedom that the wealthy enjoy today easily, by buying their children homes and cars for them. What pride can a spoiled child take without accomplishment? A strong national social contract would see this standard of living become the baseline for freedom in a society.

Families can live close by – if they wish, can own a home in the city they grew up in, and this helps families be caregivers for younger and older generations also.

Women can train and raise their children as and when they want. Fathers are productive income earners and not bound to socially meaningless or economically detrimental careers, and both can spend time in research and worthwhile engineering, medical, and community work – if they wish.

A lifetime of art, science, discovery, adventure, and acknowledged and rewarded contribution while building worthwhile projects is possible, with the opportunity to have sufficient support and the safety nets that empower moral decision-making, financial risk-taking, and entrepreneurial innovation, as needed to make any economy productive.

In a monetary society, Freedom can also be defined as what can be accomplished with the reliable income left over after paying all living costs.  When no income is left over after paying all costs of living, Freedoms are significantly restricted. When incomes do not even cover the cost of living, it can be said there are no freedoms, and either no Social Contract or a weak and collapsing Social Contract as well.

Good Leadership

Leaders are Experts, and non-experts should never be elevated to leadership positions

Automation

Why should we want to automate our current manual Production Economy? It’s simple – do you believe that anyone will starve once food arrives at everyone’s home automatically? Or will you stay up nights worrying about how will you pay your rent or mortgage once that home is available to you automatically, without cost as well? Of course not.

Will anyone want to buy our higher-cost and lower-quality exports once our competitors turn out their factory lights and produce 7/24 sustainably? Absolutely not – we are seeing this already today. The impact on our economy will be as devastating as was the U.S.S.R.’s Lada Cars & other export failures by 1985; history teaches us that economic collapse soon follows export collapse if we aren’t self-sufficient as well.

With automation and time, the importance of money will fall away all by itself. A benefit of this change is that soon, making decisions based on moral reasoning will get easier. True “Freedom” and strong democracies are found in the sustainable abundance created by automation; scarcity – was the economy of the dark ages.

We all win. The philosophy of the Golden Rule’s time-tested sustainability model works very well as intended.

Disruption

Disruption – as in the changes needed by human advance, is a very good thing – but only when Governments have planned for it and Social Contracts are kept high to permit people from being thrown under the bus by poor leadership and poor planning.

In G7 nations, most of our systems of housing, retirement, benefits, and income are based on a one-job-for-life model – which worked in 1960. This model no longer exists and is rapidly vanishing altogether for the great majority of the world’s citizens within the next 10 to 20 years.

Income interruptions equate to hunger, social problems, homelessness, and even revolution – once communities are pushed far enough. So, instead of hardships, we change these systems as have many other countries who have made these changes already – like Germany, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, and 100 million other citizens in other strong social policy countries – where the American Dream is alive and well, thirty-five years after it was lost by its creator – the America of the 1940s.