Product Description: Today’s foreign aid programs are small-scale because of the widespread belief that they are ineffective. This could be an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy: small scale virtually guarantees ineffectiveness. However, the pervasive contemporary pessimism regarding global economic inequality is most likely unfounded...read more

Product Description: Capitalism versus Pragmatic Market Socialism: A General Equilibrium Evaluation contains important contributions both to general economic theory and to the evaluation of potential market socialist economic systems. As a contribution to economic theory, the general equilibrium model utilized in the research introduces the concept of `capital management effort' as a third primary factor of production (in addition to labor and saving) provided by private households...read more

Product Description: The author applies the ELS model to demonstrate the critical importance of this concept to such controversial issues as the economic concequences of captial wealth inequality and the potential performance of market socialist economies.

Product Description: This collection of essays brings together 14 years of James Yunker's contributions to the literature on market socialism in an accessible format. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume thoroughly examines the case for democratic market socialism in light of both the real-world and intellectual history of socialism. James Yunker provides a clear and jargon-free account of this highly controversial issue...read more

Is the world ready for world government? This book presents a restrained yet powerful argument for a supernational federation tentatively designated the 'Federal Union of Democratic Nations.' The author argues that as worldwide human civilization approaches the third millennium A.D., the ideological, economic, and nationalistic barriers to supernational political unity are weakening and a legitimate state entity, beyond the United Nations today, is a realistic possibility. It would hold the power to tax, to maintain military forces and house elected legislative and executive branches in a capital city. Contents: A New Perspective on International Organization; A Proposal for Supernational Federation; Prospects for Ideological Harmonization; Prospects for Economic Equalization; State and World State; Summary and Conclusion; References; Index.

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