Economic Democracy: A Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity 2nd Edition Pbk

Foreword......Page 12
Introduction......Page 15
Plunder by Trade......Page 24
Lower Pay for Equally-Productive Labor is Part of “The Monopolization, Wealth Extraction, Process......Page 25
Extracting Wealth through Unequal Currency Values......Page 27
Periphery of Empire Finances the Imperial Centers......Page 28
Former Colonies do not have Economic Freedom......Page 29
2. The History of Plunder by Trade......Page 31
Today’s Plunder by Trade Originated Centuries Ago......Page 32
From Imperial Cities to Nascent Imperial Nations......Page 34
The Advantage of Cheap Transportation......Page 36
Creating Empires through Control of Trade......Page 37
3. In Both Internal Trade and World Trade, the Unwitting Hand Their Wealth to the Cunning......Page 41
America’s Freedom is based on Economic Freedom......Page 45
America Takes Over the Protection of Allied Empires......Page 48
Protection for the Imperial Centers, Free Trade for the Periphery of Empire......Page 51
4. The Historical Struggle for Dominance in World Trade......Page 55
Unequal Trades Enriching Britain and Impoverishing India......Page 57
Earlier Unequal Trades with China......Page 59
5. World Wars: Deciding Who Controls World Trade......Page 61
Germany and World War II......Page 64
Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and World War II......Page 65
America Protecting the Imperial Centers......Page 66
The CIA’s Mighty Wurlitzer Inoculated the World against Philosophies of Full and Equal Economic Rights......Page 69
Controlling Nations on the Periphery of Empire......Page 76
NSC-68, the Master Plan for the Cold War......Page 77
Corporate Funded Think Tanks Building Upon the Beliefs Created by the CIA......Page 82
McCarthyism Suppressing Honest Thought......Page 84
Corporate News Media Protecting Corporate Interests......Page 86
Destabilizing Internal Political Groups......Page 87
Writing History to Protect Wealth and Power......Page 94
Professors and Intellectuals are Conscientious and Sincere......Page 97
Providing a Beacon for Intellectuals Throughout the World......Page 99
Damage Control......Page 101
7. The World Breaking Free Frightened the Security Councils of Every Imperial Nation......Page 109
A Crisis of Overproduction had to be Averted......Page 111
Fabricating Incidents to Start Wars......Page 112
The Korean War, a Strategy of Tension to Attain Backing and Financing for the Cold War......Page 113
Peace in Korea Could Not be Permitted......Page 117
Containing the Soviet Federation......Page 118
World War It’s Huge Costs for the Soviet Federation......Page 121
Fictional Missile Gaps were Strategies of Tension......Page 123
The Massive Resources of the Soviet Federation and the More Massive and Cheaper Resources of the West......Page 124
Containing the Soviet Federation through forcing it to Waste its Industrial Production......Page 125
Destabilizing Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union......Page 127
Now it was Yugoslavia’s Turn to be Destabilized......Page 128
Then it was Kosovo’s Turn......Page 129
Making a Deal with the Corrupt of Russia......Page 143
The First Destabilization of Afghanistan was Aimed at the Soviet Federation......Page 147
The Decision to Restructure to a Market Economy was made by Soviet Intellectuals......Page 152
Could the Soviet Union have Avoided the Cold War?......Page 155
Imperial, Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracies......Page 158
The Essence of the Cold War: Perception Management (Propaganda) Encasing Society within a Belief System......Page 160
Conceptually Reversing the Process......Page 161
Keeping the World in Chains......Page 162
America as an Empire Predates the Cold War......Page 167
Iran Breaks Free......Page 168
Containing Iraq......Page 169
Economic Freedom for Indonesia was a Big Threat......Page 170
Vietnam Gained Political, but not Economic, Freedom......Page 171
Guatemala Broke Free Briefly......Page 172
Chile Broke Free Very Briefly......Page 173
Nicaragua Never Attained Economic Freedom......Page 175
Southern Africa’s Frontline States......Page 176
Cuba:  Under President Barack Obama, They May Gain Their Freedom......Page 177
Orchestration of Death Squads and Writing History......Page 180
Future Leaders of Nations Picked and Trained......Page 182
Erasing the Records Also Writes History......Page 183
The Battle for Trade Supremacy Continues......Page 185
The Inquisitions of the Middle Ages......Page 193
The Inquisitorial Suppression of the Templars......Page 195
Winding Down the Inquisitions of the Middle Ages......Page 196
The Inquisitorial Suppression of the Illuminati......Page 197
Czarist Secret Police Demonize the Jews......Page 198
The World Starts Breaking Free From Imperial Centers......Page 199
Capital Destroying Capital Within World Trade......Page 205
10. The Enforcers of Unequal Trade......Page 207
The Greatest Peacetime Transfer of Wealth in History......Page 209
The Purpose of IMF-World Bank Loans to the Periphery of Empire......Page 211
Friedrich List Supports for the Developed World, Adam Smith Structural Adjustments for the Emerging world......Page 214
The Privatization of the Commons of other Societies......Page 215
11. Corporate Imperialism......Page 217
Thinking in terms of Units of Production......Page 224
12. Impoverishing Labor and Eventually Capital......Page 227
Power Relationships are Shifting Fast......Page 231
Capitalizing the Values of Corporate Welfare......Page 232
13. Unequal Trades in Agriculture......Page 235
Hunger is Partially Determined by Who Controls the Land......Page 236
The Market Economy Guides the World's Production to Imperial-Centers-of-Capital......Page 237
Beef: “A Protein Factory in Reverse”......Page 238
Conceptually Reversing the Process of Free Food......Page 241
Global Economies and Local Economies Within the Community Social-Credit Process......Page 242
Controlling Puppets of the Imperial Centers......Page 245
The World’s Poor Have Been Subsidizing the Rich......Page 246
Peonage Has Only Changed Its Name......Page 248
Canceling Unjustly Incurred Debts......Page 249
15. The Economic Multiplier, Horizontal and Vertical Expansion of Wealth......Page 251
Friedrich List's Fundamental Thesis......Page 252
Gaining Wealth through the Vertical Building of Industrial Capital and the Horizontal Flow of Money......Page 253
Capitalizing Unearned Values through Creation of Scarcity......Page 254
Invisible Economic Borders Channeling Wealth to the Imperial Centers......Page 255
16. Japan's Post-World War II Defensive, Mercantilist, Economic Warfare Plan......Page 257
The American-Japanese-China-Oil Exporting Nations Debt-Equity Embrace......Page 259
Much Japanese Industry has been Forced Offshore......Page 260
It is far from Free Trade Wherever One Looks......Page 261
17. Asian Development, an Accident of History......Page 263
Will Developing Nations Oppose, or Ally With, the Imperial Centers?......Page 264
18. Capital Destroying Capital Within World Trade......Page 267
Expanding Buying Power in Step with Increased Industrial Capacity......Page 269
Competitive Sharing will Lower Prices, Raise Living Standards, and Eliminate Capitalized Values on Earned Wealth......Page 270
19. China: Possibly A New Hope for the World......Page 273
Emerging World Regional Trading Blocs Attaining Equal Negotiating Power......Page 274
The Ease With Which it can be Halted......Page 278
Introduction, Part III, Utopian Living Through Restructuring Property Rights Law......Page 279
Monopoly Capitalism’s Extractive Property Rights Versus Property Rights Providing Full and Equal Economic Rights......Page 281
The Community Social-Credit Process......Page 292
From Barter to Commodity Money......Page 297
From Gold, to Gold-Backed Paper Money, to Fiat Paper Money......Page 298
Paper Money, to Checkbook Money, to Electronic Money......Page 299
The Different Meanings of Money......Page 300
Money Productively Contracting Labor......Page 301
Money Unproductively Contracting Labor......Page 302
Learning the Secret of Bank-Created Money......Page 303
Establishing the Federal Reserve: Base Money Circulating becomes the Money Supply......Page 305
Further Testing the Assertions that, Under Modern Fractional Reserve Banking, Private Banks Create Money......Page 309
The Fed’s Open Market Operations hide the Simplicity of Money Creation......Page 312
Efficient Social-Credits Require Banking Profits and Created Monies be Paid into the Social-Credit Fund......Page 315
The Theory of Interest as Usury......Page 321
Reclaiming Your Share of Wealth Produced by Nature......Page 325
The Feudal Origins of Land Titles......Page 327
Private Ownership of Social Wealth Moves to America......Page 329
Saleable Land Titles Permitted the Mobilization of Capital......Page 332
Profound Thinkers Who Believed in Society Collecting Resource Rent......Page 333
Commercial Land......Page 334
Home Sites......Page 335
Society Paying Resource Rents to Themselves and Taxes Disappearing is Key to the Community Social-credit Process......Page 337
22. A Modern Technology Commons Lowers Consumer Prices Fifty Percent or More......Page 341
Capital Destroying Capital Within Internal Economies......Page 343
Labor Should Employ Capital......Page 344
Efficient Socially-Owned Capital......Page 346
Efficient Privately-Owned Capital......Page 348
Fictitious Capital......Page 349
Invention, a Social Process......Page 350
Capitalizing Actual and Fictitious Values......Page 352
The Ever-Increasing Efficiencies of Technology......Page 354
The Stock Markets are Primarily Extracting Wealth......Page 360
Market Bubbles and Crashes......Page 362
Options, Futures, Derivatives, and Hedge Funds are Extractors of Wealth......Page 364
Equal and Efficient Patent Laws Within the Community Social-Credit Process......Page 366
23. The Productive Roles, and Extractive Roles, of Secondary Monopolies......Page 371
24. A Modern Information Commons, Education at 5-to-15% the Costs of Brick and Mortar Schools......Page 383
Communications Superhighways Eliminating Monopolization......Page 386
Communication Superhighways Eliminates Intermediaries and Reduces Trading Costs......Page 387
Big-ticket, Infrequently-Purchased Items......Page 388
Reserving TV Time for New Products......Page 391
Investment and Job Opportunities......Page 392
Education......Page 394
Parents Interacting Closely with Their Children’s Education......Page 398
Maintaining Curiosity, Creativity, and Love of Learning......Page 399
Culture and Recreational Learning......Page 400
Local Television......Page 401
A Socially-Owned Banking System within the Community Process Paying for Communication Superhighways......Page 402
25. The Mighty Economic Engine of Full and Equal Economic Rights......Page 405
26. Summary......Page 409
27. President Barack Obama’s Economic Transition Team’s Stabilization Policies......Page 433
28. Conclusion: An Open Message to President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Team......Page 435
Appendix I: Myths in Monetary Theory......Page 454
Appendix II: A Practical Approach for Developing Nations & Regions......Page 457
About the Author......Page 483