[PEN-L:28145] Socioeconomic Democracy Book Now Available

[GeorgeCSDS@xxxxxxx]

Friends:

The purpose of this communication is to announce the publication and present
availability of the new book entitled Socioeconomic Democracy: An Advanced
Socioeconomic System.

Socioeconomic Democracy (SeD) is a theoretical model socioeconomic system
wherein there exist both some form of Universal Guaranteed Personal Income
(UGI) and some form of Maximum Allowable Personal Wealth (MAW), with both the
lower bound on personal material poverty and the upper bound on personal
material wealth set and adjusted democratically by all participants of
society.

The Table of Contents is as follows:
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1   SOCIOECONOMIC DEMOCRACY:  THE THEORETICAL MODEL
2   UNIVERSAL GUARANTEED PERSONAL INCOME
3   MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE PERSONAL WEALTH
4   DEMOCRACY
5   SOCIETAL VARIATIONS
6   JUSTIFICATIONS
7   SOCIOECONOMIC DEMOCRACY AND ISLAM
8   INCENTIVE AND SELF-INTEREST
9   PRACTICAL APPROXIMATIONS
10 FINANCIAL BENEFITS AND COSTS
11 PHYSICAL REALIZABILITY, FEASIBILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION
12 RAMIFICATIONS
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

It is (or at least should be) clear that this planet desperately needs a new,
improved and fundamentally democratized socioeconomic system.  The book will
be of interest to (among others) all those who are seriously concerned about
the multidimensional harm (to individuals, societies, cultures and the planet
at large) caused by the extreme systemic maldistribution of material wealth
intra- and internationally and who are convinced that this problem should and
can only be resolved democratically and peacefully by an informed, thoughtful
citizenry.  The book will be found appropriate for courses in economics,
political science, sociology, political philosophy, utopian studies, futures
studies, psychology and, perhaps most importantly, democratic socioeconomic
systems engineering.  The book is extensively described on our website.

The book is published by and available from Praeger/Greenwood, as well as
from e-Amazon and e-Barnes & Noble, and certainly should be available in your
friendly local bookstore and library.  The Praeger/Greenwood coordinates are:
Praeger Publishers
Greenwood Publishing Group
88 Post Road West
PO Box 5007
Westport, CT 06881-5007
<http://www.greenwood.com>

Enjoy,

Robley E. George, Director
Center for the Study of Democratic Societies
<http://www.centersds.com>