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The small nation solution : how the world's smallest nations can solve the world's biggest problems /

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...

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Main Authors: Bodley, John H
Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
Publisher Address: Lanham :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Social change
Social systems
Social problems
Culture and globalization
Acculturation
States, Small > Cross-cultural studies
States, Small > Economic conditions
Summary: 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. -- Provided
Carrier Form: xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
ISBN: 9780759122208 (cloth) :
0759122202 (cloth)
0759122210 (paperback)
9780759122215 (paperback)
Index Number: GN358
CLC: C913
Call Number: C913/B668
Contents: Part I. Big Problems, Small Nation Solutions. The Big Problem: Elite-Directed Growth ; Finding the Right Size: Why Small Nations Succeed. -- Part II. Small Nations Show the Way. Small Nation Market Capitalism: The Agoria Path ; Ecodemia: Small Nation Cooperative Economies ; Arcadia: Environmentally Friendly Small Nations. -- Part III. How Small Nations Could Reshape the World. Small Nation Solutions for the Pacific Northwest, 2025 ; United Small Nations of America: Why and How ; United Small Nations of the World: Confronting Poverty and Global Warming.

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