ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 1999: The author contends that economic democracy is the economic system the U.S. purports to have, but has thus far failed to achieve because it, like all the economic powers that have gone before, seeks to control the economies of weaker nations. It is the shocking lack of economic democracy, and the efforts of so many to achieve it, that fuels today's conflicts and will fuel those of the 21st century.To show how and why, this comprehensive work provides a detailed analysis of the history of numerous aspects of the development of the Neo-Mercantilist world economy; the geopolitical systems put in place by the developed world to manage and perpetuate that economy; and the numerous proposals and modeling plans that have been offered over the years for the achievement of economic democracy.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

part I|119 pages

External Trade: World Trade Structured for Security of Powerful Nations Entails Insecurity for Weak Nations

chapter 2|8 pages

The Violent Accumulation of Capital Is Firmly Rooted in History

Establishing the Underlying Principles of Twentieth-Century "Free Trade"

chapter 5|6 pages

World Wars, Trade Wars

Battles Over Who Decides the Rules of Unequal Trade

chapter 8|11 pages

Creating Enemies for the Masses

The Inquisitions of the Middle Ages Were, and the Inquisitions of Today Still Are, to Prevent Democratic Choice

chapter 9|15 pages

Suppressing the Freedom of Others Under the Flag of Freedom

Twentieth-century Inquisitions

part II|64 pages

External Trade: Capital Destroying Capital

chapter 10|7 pages

The IMF/World Bank/GATT/NAFTA/WTO/MAI/Military Colossus

The Enforcers of Structural Adjustments and Unequal Trades

chapter 11|8 pages

The IMF/World Bank/GATT/NAFTA/WTO/MAI/Military Colossus

Emerging Corporate Mercantilism

chapter 12|8 pages

World IMF / Bank / GATT / NAFTA / WTO / MAI Structural Adjustments

Impoverishing Labor and, Eventually, Capital

chapter 13|8 pages

Unequal Trades in Agriculture

chapter 15|7 pages

Multiplier Factor

Accumulating Capital Through Capitalizing Values of Externally Produced Wealth

chapter 17|3 pages

Japanese/Chinese/Southeast Asian Post-World War II Development

An Accident of History and a Crisis for Western Imperial Centers of Capital

chapter 18|6 pages

Capital Destroying Capital

chapter 19|4 pages

A New Hope for the World

part III|37 pages

External Trade: Sharing Technology with the World Through Cooperative Capitalism: The Route to World Peace and Prosperity

chapter 22|14 pages

Sustainable World Development

Equal Free Trade as Opposed to Unequal Free Trade

chapter 23|7 pages

Sharing Technology with the World Through Cooperative Capitalism

A Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity

part IV|106 pages

Internal Trade: Economic Rights for All People Through Elimination of Subtle Monopolies

chapter 24|20 pages

Subtly Monopolizing Land

chapter 26|24 pages

Subtly Monopolizing Money

chapter 27|23 pages

Subtly Monopolizing Information

chapter 28|6 pages

Media to Empower the Powerless

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion

A Grand Strategy for Cooperative Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century