The vast gap between the global-integral reality to which the human society has evolved, and the current economic paradigms, which have not significantly changed since the industrial revolution, is the real reason for the crisis. Understanding the gap is the first step toward solving the crisis, and this is the great challenge that economists face today.
Integral thinking, which takes into account all the possible connections among the parts of the system, can provide a researcher with tools to perform accurate calculations and predictions of any kind... It can tell economists what they need to change in the existing systems and how. But first they must rid themselves of the old thought-patterns and study the thought-patterns of the global-integral system, and the incumbent economic paradigm. The first to adopt the integral thought-pattern must be those whose role makes them the most sensitive to changes and dynamics in the human society, such as economists, politicians, and sociologists.