The Small Nation Solution

How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems

John H. Bodley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2013
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-2220-8 (ISBN)

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Eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley spotlights successful small nations as models of how to address the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation.

In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is a simple idea with profound implications. He spotlights successful small nations around the world as the best working models of sustainable sociocultural systems and shows how these diverse small nations can be the building blocks of a transformed global system that could save the world.

John H. Bodleyis Regents Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Known for his trenchant critiques of capitalism and the elite corporate power structure, he is the author of Cultural Anthropology, 5th edition (2011), Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, 6th edition (2012), and Victims of Progress, 5th edition (2008), all published by AltaMira Press.

Acknowledgments
Part I. Big Problems, Small Nation Solutions
Chapter 1. The Big Problem: Elite-Directed Growth
Chapter 2. Finding the Right Size: Why Small Nations Succeed
Part II. Small Nations Show the Way
Chapter 3. Small Nation Market Capitalism: The Agoria Path
Chapter 4. Ecodemia: Small Nation Cooperative Economies
Chapter 5. Arcadia: Environmentally Friendly Small Nations
Part III. How Small Nations Could Reshape the World
Chapter 6. Small Nation Solutions for the Pacific Northwest, 2025
Chapter 7. United Small Nations of America: Why and How
Chapter 8. United Small Nations of the World: Confronting Poverty and Global Warming
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.7.2013
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 234 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-7591-2220-2 / 0759122202
ISBN-13	978-0-7591-2220-8 / 9780759122208
Zustand	Neuware