John H. Bodley

The Small Nation Solution (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216328131
• Artikelnr.: 74842921

Autorenporträt

John H. Bodley (MA, PhD 1970, University of Oregon) is Regents Professor Emeritus at Washington State University, where he taught from 1970 to 2013. His research interests include indigenous peoples, cultural ecology, and contemporary issues with an emphasis on complexity, scale, and power.

Inhaltsangabe

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