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

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

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 by publisher.

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ISBN: 9780759122208 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0759122202 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0759122210 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780759122215 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.