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Ordinary citizens the world over have long paid the price for the swashbuckling behavior of the corporate and political elite. We've seen the reigning establishment widen the gap between rich and poor, champion endless growth on a finite planet, wreak havoc on developing nations, and ravage ecosystems in a mad race for natural resources.

Now, as demonstrators worldwide demand change, Occupy World Street offers a sweeping vision of how to reform our global economic and political structures, break away from empire, and build a world of self-determining sovereign states that respect the need for ecological sustainability and uphold human rights.

In this refreshingly detailed plan, Ross Jackson shows how a handful of small nations could take on a leadership role; create new alliances, new governance, and new global institutions; and, in cooperation with grassroots activists, pave the way for other nations to follow suit.

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• About the Author(p. viii)
• Foreword(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. xv)
• Part 1 Planet Under Siege
• 1 The Assault on Nature(p. 3)
• 2 Energy Descent(p. 17)
• 3 The Collapse of Civilizations(p. 33)
• Part 2 Drivers of Destruction
• 4 The Evolution of Economic Beliefs(p. 49)
• 5 The Neoliberal Project(p. 76)
• 6 Financial Crises(p. 103)
• Part 3 The Empire
• 7 The Kennan Doctrine(p. 125)
• 8 Who Is in Charge?(p. 145)
• Part 4 New Values, New Beliefs
• 9 The Emergent Worldview(p. 163)
• 10 Learning from Nature(p. 184)
• 11 Gaian Economics(p. 193)
• Part 5 Toward a Gaian World Order
• 12 Designing a Gaian World(p. 205)
• 13 The Gaian Trade Organization(p. 210)
• 14 The Gaian Clearing Union(p. 224)
• 15 The Gaian Development Bank(p. 242)
• 16 A Gaian World(p. 259)
• Part 6 Getting There
• 17 The Breakaway Strategy(p. 275)
• Afterword(p. 297)
• Notes(p. 298)
• Index(p. 307)

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Amazing! Ross Jackson's proposal for post-collapse strategy is the first plausible, constructive scenario I have seen. --Dennis Meadows, co-author, The Limits to Growth Excerpted from Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform by Ross Jackson All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Jackson, chairman of the Danish-based foundation Gaia Trust and co-editor of Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits, provides a comprehensive and lucidly written history of neoliberal economics and its effects, tracing the inequalities inherent in neoliberal economic planning. Neoliberalism, as Jackson illustrates, isn't an inevitable historical development, but rather an "artificial construct" created by people with a self-serving strategy that neglects the rest of humanity. Jackson presents the fundamental flaws in modern economics, locates the turning point in regulation and economic behavior, and then shows how and why things have devolved to their current state through the actions of the IMF and WTO. He traces a new, emergent worldview, proposing a solution in the form of a Gaian economic system, in which smaller, decentralized, diverse communities with a degree of local democracy form the proposed utopia, in contrast to the branded neoliberal free market of corporate dreams. A return to a simpler, more satisfying, and sustainable lifestyle is both necessary and inevitable, Jackson argues. The book is a how-to, "get serious about survival" guide, laying out a "global governance structure" and providing us with several strategies to try to get there. Hopefully, Jackson's ideas won't fall on dead ears. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Ross Jackson, an expert in international finance and operations research, has long been an innovative leader in both the business and NGO worlds. He is chairman of Gaia Trust, a Danish-based foundation that supports the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education, as well as hundreds of sustainability projects in forty countries. He is also director and owner of Urtekram, Scandinavia's largest wholesale organic-food company, and former chairman of Gaiacorp, foreign-exchange consultants and hedge fund managers. Jackson is the coeditor of When No Means Yes: Danish Visions of a Different Europe and Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits and author of And We ARE Doing It: Building an Ecovillage Future, among other books. He lives in Denmark.