Socioeconomic Democracy An Advanced Socioeconomic System

Subjects:

• Political Science » Political Philosophy

Reviews:

• [O]bviously the product of many years of thought and contemplation by a person with solid academic training and personal convictions. Recommended. All collections and levels.
  —Choice April 2003
• [A]nyone who is interested in these issues will find the book well worth reading.
  —Science & Technology Winter 2004-2005

• Endorsement From Ikram Azam
  Founder and Chairman, Pakistan Futuristics Foundation and Institute: Robley E. George's Socioeconomic Democracy is based in the best traditions of humanitarianism....Students of Islamic Economics and Democracy will find much food for thought in this comparative study.
• Endorsement From Sohail Inayatullah
  Senior Research Fellow
  Queens University of Technology and Executive Board Member of WFSF: Future generations . . . will thank Mr. George . . . for his book which tells what Socioeconomic Democracy is, and how we can achieve it.
• Endorsement From Philippe Van Parijis
  Chaire, Hoover d'Ethique Economique et Sociale
  Universite Cathedral de Louvian, Founder of BIEN: The world will not change for the better unless imaginative and obstinate thinkers explore and advocate bold ideas. Robley George is one of those thinkers, thanks to whom it is not foolish to hope.
• Endorsement From Sam Pizzigati
  Author
  The Maximum Wage: The wider the gap between rich and poor, the narrower the chances that real democracy can survive and thrive. Inequality demands answers . . . and Robley George, bless his out-of-the-box-thinking soul, has a provocative answer to offer.
• Endorsement From The late Robert Theobald
  "One of the world's most influential Futurists," Encyclopedia of the Future: Robley George has a strategy which aims at one of our most serious issues--the growing gap between the rich and the poor. . . . Read this book and open up new space for your thinking.
• Endorsement From Arnoldo Ventura
  Special Advisor on Science and Technology to the Prime Minister of Jamaica: In a finite world, with population and environmental pressures growing, and natural resources dwindling, limits will clearly have to be set. . . . Socioeconomic Democracy as a governing precept could foster a new economics and a new global value system, which places people in the centre of progress.

Table of Contents:

• Forethought
• Preface
• Introduction
• Socioeconomic Democracy: The Theoretical Model
• Universal Guaranteed Personal Income
• Maximum Allowable Personal Wealth
• Democracy
• Societal Variations
• Justifications
• Socioeconomic Democracy and Islam
• Incentive and Self-Interest
• Practical Approximations
• Financial Benefits and Costs
• Physical Realizability, Feasibility and Implementation
• Ramifications
• Appendix - Exercises for the Interested
• Bibliography
• Index