Full Table of Contents

• Wealth Accumulation Expands or Contracts Exponentially with the Differential in Pay
• Equal Pay for Equal Work is the Answer to World Poverty
• Underpay through unequal Currency Values
• Purchasing Power Parity, a Strategy of Deception
• Periphery of Empire Finances the Imperial Centers
• Trumpeting Partial Rights as Full Rights
• Former Colonies do not have Economic Freedom
• Summary

2. The Violent accumulation of Capital is Rooted in History

• The Evolution of City-States and Plunder-by-Trade
• Evolving from Imperial Cities to Nascent Imperial Nations
• The Advantage of Cheap Water Transportation
• The British Empire and Control of Trade

3. The Unwitting Hand Their Wealth to the Cunning

• America’s Freedom is based on Economic Freedom
• Friedrich List Wrote His Classic observing America’s Industrialization
• America Allies with the Old Imperial Nations
• Successful Protection of the “Free” World Validates Friedrich List
• Secondary Industrial Powers are at Greatest Risk
• The Dilemma of the Old Imperial-Centers-of-Capital

4. The Historical Struggle for Dominance in World Trade

• India: Her Vast Wealth siphoned to Britain
• Controlling China was a much more Difficult Problem

5. World Wars, Trade Wars: Battles Over Who Decides the Rules of Unequal Trade

• Germany and World War II
• Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and World War II
• America Protects the Imperial Centers

6. Suppressing Freedom of Thought in a Democracy

• The CIA’s Mighty Wurlitzer Inoculated the World against Philosophies of Full and Equal Rights
• Controlling Nations on the Periphery of Empire
• The Cold War required a Master Plan
• Impositions of Beliefs through Corporate-Funded Think-Tanks
• The Residual Effects of McCarthyism
• The News Media Trapped Themselves
• Destabilizing Internal Political Groups
• Writing History to Protect Wealth and Power
• The Untold Secrets of “National Security” and the “National Interest”
• Professors and Intellectuals are Conscientious and Sincere
• Providing a Beacon for Intellectuals throughout the World
• Who are the Powerful?
• Who are the Violent and Powerful?
• Damage Control

7. The World Breaking Free frightened the Security Councils of Every Western Nation

• A Crisis of Overproduction had to be averted
• National Security Council Directive 68
• The Korean War, a Strategy-of-Tension Building a “Framework of Orientation”
• Fabricating Incidents to Start Wars
• Peace in Korea could not be permitted
• The First Efforts to Contain the Soviet Federation
• World War II’s Huge Costs for the Soviet Federation
• Fictional Missile Gaps were Strategies-of-Tension Building a “Framework of Orientation”
• The Massive Resources of the Soviet Federation and the More Massive and Cheaper Resources of the West
• Errors in Soviet Planning
• Containing the Soviet Federation through forcing it to Waste its Industrial Production
• Destabilizing Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
• Now it was Yugoslavia’s Turn to be Destabilized
• Now it was Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Turn.
• Then it was Kosovo’s Turn
• Making a deal with the Corrupt of Russia
• The First Destabilization of Afghanistan was aimed at the Soviet Federation
• The Decision to restructure to a Market Economy was made by Soviet Intellectuals
• Could the Soviet Union have avoided the Cold War?
• Imperial Democracies, Representative Democracies, Participatory Democracies
• Propaganda Building a “Framework of Orientation” was the Essence of the Cold War
• Conceptually Reversing the Process
• Keeping the World in Chains

8. Suppressing the World’s Break for Economic Freedom

• America as an Empire predates the Cold War
• Iran Breaks Free
• Containing Iraq
• Economic Freedom for Indonesia was a Big Threat
• Nigeria tried but did not break Free
• Vietnam Gained Political but not Economic Freedom
• Guatemala Broke Free Briefly
• Chile Broke Free Very Briefly
• El Salvador did not gain even its Political Freedom
• Nicaragua never attained Economic Freedom
• Southern Africa’s Frontline States
• The Libyan Threat
• Cuba: almost Free and may yet Succeed
• Orchestration of Death Squads and Writing History
• Future Leaders of Nations Picked and Trained
• Erasing the Records is Writing History to Maintain a “Framework of Orientation”
• The Battle for Trade Supremacy Continues

9. Framework of Orientation, Creating Enemies for the Masses

• The Inquisitions of the Middle Ages
• The Spanish Inquisition
• The Inquisitorial Suppression of the Templars
• Winding Down the Inquisitions of the Middle Ages
• The Inquisitorial Suppression of the Illuminati
• Czarist Secret Police Demonize the Jews
• The World starts Breaking Free from Imperial Centers

• The Greatest Peacetime Transfer of Wealth in History
• The purpose of IMF/World Bank Loans to the Periphery of Empire
• Friedrich List Supports for the Developed World, Adam Smith Structural Adjustments for the Developing World
• The Privatization of the Commons of other Societies

11. Emerging Corporate Imperialism

• The Legal Structure for Corporate Imperialism
• Thinking in terms of Units of Production

12. Impoverishing Labor and Eventually Capital

• Meltdown on the Periphery of Empire as the Center Holds
• Bond and Currency Markets lowering Living standards for the Politically Weak
• Corporate Welfare

13. Unequal Trades in Agriculture

• Hunger is determined by Who Controls the Land
• The Market Economy Guides the World’s Production to Imperial-Centers-of-Capital
• Stevia: Sweeter Than Sugar
• Beef: “A Protein Factory in Reverse”
• Conceptually Reversing the Process of Free Food
• The Periphery of Empire is a Huge Plantation Providing Food and Resources to the Imperial Center

14. Developing World Loans, Capital Flight, Debt Traps, and Unjust Debts

• Controlling Puppets of the Imperial Centers
• Economic Warfare and Financial Warfare
• The World’s Poor are subsidizing the Rich
• Building the Infrastructure to transfer Natural Wealth to the Imperial Centers
• Debt Traps: Loaning Excess Accumulations of Capital back to the Producers of that Wealth
• Peonage has only changed its Name
• Lending responsibly, a Well-Recognized Tenet of Law
• Canceling Unjustly Incurred Debts

15. The Economic Multiplier, Accumulating Capital Through Capitalizing Values of Externally Produced Wealth

• Friedrich List’s Fundamental Thesis
• Gaining Wealth through the Vertical Building of Industrial Capital and the Horizontal Flow of Money
• Accumulation of Capital through Creation of Scarcity
• Residual-Feudal Exclusive Property Titles: A monopoly on what nature produced
• Capitalizing Values through Underpaying the Weak on the Periphery of Empire
• Accumulating Capital through Capitalized Values of Internally Produced Wealth

16. Japan’s Post-World War II Defensive, Mercantilist, Economic Warfare PLan

• The American/Japanese Debt/Equity Embrace
• Care for Another’s Economy Is Only Between Allies
• Much Japanese Industry Is Being Forced Offshore
• It Is Far From Free Trade Wherever One Looks

17. Southeast Asian Development, An Accident of History

• Will Developing Nations Oppose, or Ally With, the Imperial-Centers?

18. Capital Destroying Capital

• Failure to Expand Buying Power to keep Factories running is Economic Insanity
• Industries can be built quickly but Markets only Slowly
• Expanding Buying Power in Step with Increased Industrial Capacity
• The Monopoly Hold on Technology and Markets Is Weakening
• Democratic-Cooperative-(Superefficient)-Capitalism will lower Prices and raise Living Standards

19. A New Hope for the World

• Four Powerful Economic Weapons available for Developing World use
• Developing World Regional Trading Blocs to Attain Equal Negotiating Power

• Primary Concerns of World Industrialization
• Civilizations Collapse when Soil Fertility Collapses
• Restoring the World’s Soils and Ecosphere

21. The Political Structure of Sustainable World Development

• Adequate Resources and Markets for Efficient Economies
• A Political Framework for Democratic-Cooperative-(Superefficient)-Capitalism
• Human Rights and Equality of Rights
• Security through Equality and Interdependence
• Integrating Diverse Nationalities, Races, and Cultures

22. Equal Free Trade as Opposed to Unequal Free Trade

• Regional and Local Self-sufficiency
• Developing Regions should be trading with Each Other
• Regional Trading Currencies
• The Imperial Centers Understand Well the Importance of Equally-Paid Labor
• Invisible Borders between the Imperial Center and the Periphery of Empire Disappear
• Returning Title to Natural Wealth to its Rightful Owners
• Tariffs to Equalize Equally-Productive but Unequally-Paid Labor
• Pricing Commodities relative to the Cost of Mining and Harvesting the World’s Poorer Soils
• Equalizing Managed-Trade
• Conserving Hydrocarbon Fuels
• Build them Industries Instead of giving them money

23. A Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity

• Compounding Sustainable Industrial Development
• The World can be developed to a Sustainable Level and Poverty eliminated in Forty-Five Years
• Society is a Social Machine producing its Needs
• Once Industrialized, Industrial Production can be cut back
• The Tragedy of the Commons

• Land is Social Wealth
• Pride in Ownership must be maintained
• The Feudal Origins of Land Titles
• Private Ownership of Social Wealth moves to America
• Saleable Land Titles permitted the Mobilization of Capital
• Profound Thinkers Who Believed in Society Collecting the Landrent
• Commercial Land
• Farm Land
• Home Sites
• If Society Collected the Landrent, all other Taxes could be eliminated
• An Opportunity to Restructure With Society Collecting the Landrent
• Instant Restructuring to Social Collection of Landrent through Bonds

25. Restructuring Residual-Feudal Exclusive Patent Laws Produces a Modern Technology Commons

• Labor should employ Capital
• Efficient Socially-Owned Capital
• Efficient Privately-Owned Capital
• Fictitious Capital
• Invention, a Social Process
• Capitalizing Actual and Fictitious Values
• Royalties originated from Royalty conferring Monopoly Trading Rights
• The Foundation of Law is Military Power
• A Nation’s Wealth is Measured by, and Siphoned to Titleholders through, Capitalized Values
• The Financial Structure to Harvest the Profits of Subtly-Monopolized Patents
• Market Bubbles and Crashes
• Options, Futures, and other Derivatives are Gambling Chips in a Worldwide Casino
• Bringing the World’s Markets under Control
• Restructuring Patent Laws
• Full Rights to use any Technology is more efficient and Pays Inventors Better
• Competitive Monopolies, Developmentally Mature Technology, and Standardization

26. A Modern Money Commons

• From Barter to Commodity Money
• From Commodity Money to Coins of Precious Metal
• From Gold, to Gold-Backed Paper Money, to Paper Money
• From Paper Money, to Checkbook Money, to Money as a Blip on a Computer Screen
• Credit or Trust Money
• The Different Meanings of Money
• Money is a Contract against another Person’s Labor
• Money Productively Contracting Labor
• Money Unproductively Contracting Labor
• There must be Money before Wealth
• Learning the Secret of Bank-Created Money
• Primary-Created Money and Circulation-Created Money
• The Fed’s Open Market Operations hide the Simplicity of Money Creation
• A Money Commons structured to protect the Rights of All
• Inflation, Deflation, and Constant Value: Creating Honest Money
• Accumulation of Capital through Democratic-Cooperative-(Superefficient)-Capitalism
• Negative Interest
• The Simplicity of Paying Taxes through Taxing the Circulation of Money
• Money: A Measure of Productive Labor Value

27. A Modern Information Commons

• Efficient, cheap, Communications may Eliminate Monopolization
• Communication eliminates Intermediaries and reduces Trading Costs
• Big-ticket, Infrequently-Purchased Items
• Inexpensive, Small, Frequently-Traded Items
• Shopping as a Social Event entails a Cost
• A Modern Communications Commons Doubling Distribution Efficiency
• Trades should still pay for “Free” TV
• Reserving TV Time for New Products
• Music, Sports, Movies, and Game Shows
• Investment and Job Opportunities
• Education
• Inspired Teachers for every Student
• Parents interacting closely with their Children’s Education
• Better Institutions for Socialization
• Maintaining Curiosity, Creativity, and Love of Learning
• Once Borderline Teachable Graduating at the Top of Their Class
• Culture and Recreational Learning
• Minority Cultures
• Foreign Cultures
• Local Television
• Elections
• Homes as Low-Budget TV Stations

28. Wi-Fi-Empowering the Powerless

• Some Frauds of History
• Restructuring the Media to cover the Full Political Spectrum
• Subtle, But Explosive, one-liners would alert the Masses
• The Developing World can Leapfrog Decades in the Development Process
• Politicians speaking to, and listening to, the People
• Turning Weapons into Consumer Products
• An Offer the Impoverished World cannot refuse
• The World Can, and Will, Disarm
• Powerful Nations will not willingly give up Their Superior Rights

Conclusion: Guidelines for World Development

• Our Cures for the World’s Problems Follow Henry George’s Principles of Conditional Titles to Nature’s Resources
• These are Historic Moments

Appendix 1: Expansion and Contraction of Cultures

Appendix 2: A Practical Approach for Developing Poor Nations and Regions

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