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Index
1. Introduction
PART I: THE DIALECTIC PATH OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2. Classical Economic Theory
3. The Rise and Fall of Marxist Economics
4. Keynesian Cyclical Stabilization
5. The Fall and Rise of Neoclassical Macroeconomics
PART II: AN ALTERNATIVE MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK
6. The Unified Theory of Macroeconomic Failure
PART III: USURIOUS PRODUCTS AND INSTITUTIONS
7. Usury: Conquest by Stealth
8. The Ascent of Banking
9. Bank Instability, Products, and Economics
10. The Federal Reserve as an Extension of Banking Power
PART IV: CYCLICALITY, MARKET AND PUBLIC SECTOR INEFFICIENCY, AND DEMOCRACY
11. Amplified Business Cycles
12. Private Sector Inefficiency: Competition and Information Quality
13. Public Sector Inefficiency: Plutocracy vs Democracy
14. Measuring Democracy
PART V: ALTERNATIVE FINANCING AND TAXATION
15. The Next Revolution in Equity Finance
16. Public Finance and Indirect Taxes
17. Corporate Taxation
18. Regressive Personal Taxation
19. Progressive Personal Taxation
PART VI: OUTLOOK
20. The Gathering Storms
Appendix: Identifying Usurious Lending
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Detailed Contents
In Search of Reliable Signposts
Macroeconomics in Crisis
The Economic Efficiency of Morality
Why Read This Book?
The Pioneers
Critical Classical Assumptions
Self-Interest, Rationality, and Instinct
Insufficient Information, Emotion, and Irrationality
Positively Sloping Marginal Utility Curves
Wealth, Power, and Insecurity
Parasitic Economics and Parasitic Capitalism
Parasitic Capitalism, Plutocracy, and Psychopathy
The Ramifications of Missing Drivers
A Post-Classical Model of Economic Behavior
Critique of Classical Economics
Nineteenth Century Poverty and Plutocracy in Europe
Marxist Interpretations
An Unforeseen Revolutionary Springboard
Critique of Marxist Economics
The Demise of Parasitic Capitalism
Two Great Communist Legacies
A Hegelian Interpretation of History
Jean Charles LĂ©onard de Sismondi
Durations and Stages of Economic Cycles
Viscount Takahashi's Macroeconomic Revolution
Keynesian Economic Explanations
The Interest Elasticity of Investment
The Golden Age of Keynesianism (1946-1973)
The Challenge of Stagflation (1973-1982)
Keynesian Oversight
Critique of Keynesian Economics
The Fall
The Austrian School
The Monetarist School
Revival
Misdiagnosis of Stagflation (1979-1982)
Neoclassical Supply-Side Economics
MPT versus Dynamic Portfolio Theory
Critique of Neoclassical Macroeconomics
Morality and Economic Efficiency
Value Judgments
Plutocracies and Psychopaths
Academia's Failings
The Nature of Externalities
The Unified Theory of Macroeconomic Failure
Chronic Negative Externalities
Unintended Spillover Effects of an Incomes Policy
The Butterfly Effect of Reparations
Disguising Usury
The Evolution of a Ponzi Scheme
The Rehabilitation of Usury
Islamist Banking
Economic Revolutions
The Equity Finance Revolution
The Usurious Revolution
The Incurable Defects of a Ponzi Scheme
The Democratic Revolution
The Counter-Revolution
Financial Feudalism
Neocons, Neoclassical Economics, Neo-Feudalism, and Neo-Imperialism
Ascent of the Banking Plutocracy
Banking in Perpetual Crisis
The Banking Model
Bankers' Decision-Making
Bankers' Ethical Failures
The Seduction of National Indebtedness
Odious Debt and International Institutions
International Financial Institutions
Debt and Hyperinflation
Derivatives and Warrants
Short Selling
Usurious Capitalism
The Birth of the Federal Reserve
The Riddle of the Federal Reserve
The Direct Cost of the Federal Reserve
Fed Monetary Policy
Dismantling Glass-Steagall
Democracy and the Federal Reserve
Economic Cycles as Externalities
War as an Endogenous Variable
Credit Cycles
Stages of a Business Cycle
United States Cyclical Contractions (1785-2009)
Monopolies and Oligopolies
Monopsony in the Labor Market
Chronic Underconsumption
Quality of Information
Government Reporting
Credit-Rating Agencies
Corporate Reporting
Regulators and Supervisors
Economic Counseling
Neoclassical Macroeconomics
Political Contributions
The Media
Corporate Democracy
Poverty
Crime
Wars of Aggression as Foreign Policy
Excessive Plutocratic Wealth
Measuring Western Democratization
Reference Country
Political Choice
Voter Participation
Economic Policy Determination
Economic Inequality
Wars of Aggression
Prison Population
Computing the Western Democratization Index
Equity Participation Certificates
EPC Rental Equivalence
EPC Cash Flow Illustration
EPCs vs. Mortgage Finance
Common Shares
Preferred Shares
Charitable and Cooperative Lending
Short Rents
Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds
The Discount Rate
Remodeling Banking
Stability, Money Creation, and Monetary Policy
The Need for Public Goods
Public Expenditure Efficiency
Tax Objectives, Efficiency, and Types
The Case for a Pigovian Tax on Financial Pollution
Effect of Sales Taxes on Exports
Repeal of Taxation of Essentials
Taxing Fraudulent Gains
Tax Bias, Indebtedness, and Other Inefficiencies
Employers' Social Security Tax Contribution
Erosion of the Corporate Income Tax Base
Pricing Public Goods for the Corporate Sector
The Relative Economic Efficiency of a Corporate Capital Tax
The Incidence of a Corporate Capital Tax
Effect on Corporate Indebtedness
Cyclical Stabilization
Effect of Inflation
Corporate Capital Tax Avoidance
Computation of a Corporate Capital Tax Rate
Corporate Capital Tax Collection and Compliance
Charities, Charitable Foundations, and Charitable Assets
Dividend Withholding Tax
Principles of Personal Taxation
A Regressive Personal Income Tax
Capital Gains Tax
Employees' Social Security Tax Contribution
Expenditure Tax
The Politics of Income Distribution
Democracy Tax
Inheritance Tax
Identifying Personal Tax Bases
Labor Income Tax
Personal Capital Tax
Computing the Rate of a Flat Personal Capital Tax
The Economic Efficiency of a Personal Capital Tax
Administration of a Personal Capital Tax
Tax Migration
Reducing the Tax Burden
The Eurozone
Conflict and the Price of Oil
The United States
An Alternate Reality
The Struggle for Valid Economics
The Struggle for Democracy
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