Description
Unlike the many other books now being written bewailing Western society's sorry state, this book offers a diagnosis and proposes remedial actionWhile it is true that ours is an affluent society, and many people are having happy lives, and brilliant science and technology have made life easier and longer, consider just how badly wemanage the economy: Periodic recession, obscene inequality and poverty for many despite hugely increasing economic output; and, specially in North America, a perverted broadcasting system paid for by business corporations to promote consumer goods, polluting the airwaves with deceit and untruth, and harming society. And most inexcusable, we continue spewing carbon into the atmosphere, endangering civilized existence on our planet. What this book does is explain the radical institutional reforms that will restore us as the model of what the good society should be. We shall immediately recover the hi-jacked broadcasting system and place it at the service of the people and society; transform the public finance system to allow a rational allocation between private and public spending; launch the mega-projects that will convert the economy into a low emitter of carbon, and with a better quality of life; and put an end to the absurd cycle of boom and bust.… (more)