- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (30 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 027597376X
- ISBN-13: 978-0275973766
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,430,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"In a finite world, with population and environmental pressures growing, and natural resources dwindling, limits will clearly have to be set. . . . Socioeconomic Democracy as a governing precept could foster a new economics and a new global value system, which places people in the centre of pogress."-Arnoldo Ventura Special Advisor on Science and Technology to the Prime Minister of Jamaica
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George offers a direct and powerful challenge to the fatal shortcomings of virtually all currently dominant economic paradigms, including those of capitalism, socialism, communism, and mixed economies. The alternative is "socioeconomic democracy," an advanced theoretical model in which there is some form of universal guaranteed income as well as a limit to maximum allowable personal wealth, combined with a realistic degree of human flexibility based on public choice theory.
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As we experience the beginning of the twenty-first century and the new millennium, two global quests are significantly shaping the future of humanity. Read the first page
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The author is presenting/supporting two basic ideas: that there should be a universal guaranteed personal income (i.e. a stipend from the government for every person in the U.S. just for being alive) and a maximum allowable personal wealth (i.e. a cap on yearly income and/or net worth). Too much time is spent elaborating on what are fairly self-explanatory propositions and too little time on anything resembling analysis.
Who is the audience? It seems pretentious and silly to be citing Plato for issues of 21st century economics. Is the audience high school students? Then again, including extended passages from Rawls, Dworkin, Nozick, is pretty heavy stuff for 18 year-olds. Since the work is all summary and no real analysis, I can't believe it was intended for graduate students or professionals.
Basically, the book is a string of lengthy excerpts from other people's works. It reads like a graduate school term paper and really doesn't deliver anything other than a discussion of the obvious.
Who is the audience? It seems pretentious and silly to be citing Plato for issues of 21st century economics. Is the audience high school students? Then again, including extended passages from Rawls, Dworkin, Nozick, is pretty heavy stuff for 18 year-olds. Since the work is all summary and no real analysis, I can't believe it was intended for graduate students or professionals.
Basically, the book is a string of lengthy excerpts from other people's works. It reads like a graduate school term paper and really doesn't deliver anything other than a discussion of the obvious.
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