This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.The horrific truth behind the “China Price”: dangerous, oppressive working conditions, and outright slave labor.If China is winning on the basis of a cheap, well-disciplined labor force and superior manufacturing methods, that’s one set of facts. In fact, however, much of the “China P...

Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.

It started with the Occupy Wall Street movement and then spread across the world. Everyone was sick of the greed of the rich and powerful, sick of financial disaster caused by people who then received massive salaries for their incompetence.The world changed rapidly, this time it was the western world that underwent a revolution, and much needed controls were placed on capitalism.

America seems to be on a downward slide. Our government spends too much, our economy creates too little, and we aren't preparing our children to compete in a global marketplace. Yet our politicians—Republican and Democrat alike—just don't get it. While once-great cities fall into decay, Washington thrives, living off the hard work and tax dollars of the private sector. It's time for an American comeback—and it starts with innovation.Throughout its history, America's great innovators...

This Element is an excerpt from Up and Out of Poverty: The Social Marketing Solution (ISBN: 9780137141005) by Philip Kotler and Nancy R. Lee. Available in print and digital formats.   Why global poverty is more than an abstract moral issue: the surprising, direct impact it has on your life.   ...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance, Gar Alperovitz then constructs a philosophical argument for broad distribution of the profits earned from the capitalization of this technology. In the process he examines some of the pract...

It is more than ironic that the current recession has prompted various Western observers to turn a 30-year-old belief on its head. No longer do the pundits claim that China can only survive and prosper by adopting capitalism. Now, this brief eBook says, they look to China, with its growing economy and increasing demand for consumer goods, to keep capitalism itself from collapsing.

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, David Morris describes the growing tension between the globalization of economies and the localization of politics, between our role as consumers and our role as citizens. He suggests that the resolution of this tension lies in Schumacher‘s call for local production for local consump...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. Michael Shuman's lecture to the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires points to the shift that is occurring from a global economy focusing on cheap goods and the protection of private bottom lines to a local economy centering on place and the protection of families, communities, and the environment. Locally owned businesses ...

By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U.S. as a "hyperpower," to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented in world history, and to assume that American dominance would continue at least throughout our lifetimes. It is conventional wisdom that America will have no serious rivals for at least a generation. But the American position is far more fragile and ephemeral than much of the world believes. Clyde Prestowitz shows the po...

Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument that workers themselves on the shop floor, not outside union officials, are the real hope for labor’s future. Utilizing the principles of solidarity unionism, any group of co-workers, like th...

If youre in the manufacturing business, youd be foolish not to look to India as a center for production. The country is well positioned to produce labor-intensive, high-volume products at a fraction of the price that they can be produced in the United States and elsewhere. Whether its raw castings, machined castings, forgings, fabrication parts, or something else, India should be part of your business plan. Its not just the extreme differential in wages that should convince you to do busin...