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The actual cost of the GMP program to the populations of the rich nations would be a very slight and virtually unnoticeable reduction in the rate of growth of their living standards. The model incorporates features suggested by the skeptical literature on foreign aid, and it is shown that if certain key parameter values are sufficiently adverse, the GMP would indeed be ineffective. However, extensive sensitivity analysis demonstrates that the optimistic benchmark results are robust against wide variations in the numerical values of most model parameters. The fundamental policy implication of this research is that only an actual real-world experiment with a Global Marshall Plan could reliably determine whether or not it would be successful.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52132921213201,"sku":"NLS9780739192306","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780739192306.jpg?v=1757521999"},{"product_id":"political-globalization-book-james-a-yunker-9780761838456","title":"Political Globalization","description":"According to conventional opinion, world government would be undesirable because it might develop into global tyranny, as well as almost certainly entailing bureaucratic overload. This work vigorously contests this conventional opinion on the basis of an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated the Federal Union of Democratic Nations. Although the proposed federation would represent a quantum advance beyond the United Nations of today, it would at the same time operate under some key restraints, such as the reserved right of member nations to withdraw from the Federal Union at their own unilateral discretion. Yunker argues that despite these restraints, the Union would make a valuable contribution to the future security and prosperity of human civilization. He makes a compelling case that political globalization could and should complement the ongoing economic and cultural globalization of the contemporary era. Visionary yet pragmatic, this book represents the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and sophisticated advocacy of world government to be found in world federalist literature. Although Political Globalization is most directly aimed at international relations specialists and policy makers, it will also be highly illuminating and thought-provoking to all those with a serious interest in humanity's long-term future.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52149269627153,"sku":"NLS9780761838456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52739972235537,"sku":"NIN9780761838456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780761838456.jpg?v=1757606281"},{"product_id":"capitalism-versus-pragmatic-market-socialism-book-james-a-yunker-9780792393993","title":"Capitalism versus Pragmatic Market Socialism","description":"Capitalism versus Pragmatic Market Socialism: A General  Equilibrium Evaluation contains important contributions both  to general economic theory and to the evaluation of potential market  socialist economic systems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52336531570961,"sku":"NLS9780792393993","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53533581639953,"sku":"NIN9780792393993","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780792393993.jpg?v=1758163635"},{"product_id":"beyond-global-governance-book-james-a-yunker-9780761863595","title":"Beyond Global Governance","description":"In these ground-breaking essays, James A. Yunker issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking on world government. Based on an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated the Federal Union of Democratic Nations, this book envisions a legitimate world government a quantum leap beyond the United Nations of today. The Federal Union proposed would operate under some key restraints, such as a dual voting system in the world legislature, and two key reserved rights of the member nations: to withdraw from the Federal Union at their own unilateral discretion, and to maintain independent control over whatever military forces they feel are necessary to their national security. Yunker demonstrates how these restraints would minimize the possibility that the world government would result in such adverse outcomes as global tyranny, bureaucratic overload, or cultural homogenization.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52451621601553,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52451622256913,"sku":"NLS9780761863595","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780761863595.jpg?v=1759362108"},{"product_id":"common-progress-book-james-a-yunker-9780275968359","title":"Common Progress","description":"Yunker sets forth the case for initiation of a massive foreign development assistance effort termed the World Economic Equalization Program (WEEP). The scale of the program would dwarf that of all historical foreign aid programs, yet the proposed contributions by the donor nations would not be unmanageable. The richest nations would contribute amounts ranging from three to seven percent of their Gross National Products.    Computer simulations of a model of the proposed program over a 50 year period show the possibility of a tremendous rise in the living standards of the poor nations, while, at the same time, the living standards of the rich nations continue to rise at rates closely comparable to those of the recent past. Sensitivity analysis demonstrates that the optimistic conclusions forthcoming from the baseline policy simulation remain robust against wide variations in the numerical parameter values. However, since it is obvious that real world results might not resemble results derived from computer simulation of a theoretical model, the recommendation put forward is that a World Economic Equalization Program be initiated on a tentative and provisional basis, with the explicit intention of terminating it if, after a reasonable period of time, real world results are insufficiently promising. A provocative analysis and proposal aimed primarily at economists and policy makers involved with economic development, international economics, and global economic policy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52478774509841,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52478775329041,"sku":"NLS9780275968359","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780275968359.jpg?v=1759847686"},{"product_id":"socialism-revised-and-modernized-book-james-a-yunker-9780275941345","title":"Socialism Revised and Modernized","description":"This volume advocates pragmatic market socialism and offers a penetrating critique of the entire range of capitalist apologetics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52486223134993,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52486224183569,"sku":"NLS9780275941345","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780275941345.jpg?v=1759858896"},{"product_id":"capitalism-versus-pragmatic-market-socialism-book-james-a-yunker-9789401049702","title":"Capitalism versus Pragmatic Market Socialism","description":"Capitalism versus Pragmatic Market Socialism: A General  Equilibrium Evaluation contains important contributions both  to general economic theory and to the evaluation of potential market  socialist economic systems. As a contribution to economic theory, the  general equilibrium model utilized in the research introduces the  concept of `capital management effort' as a third primary factor of  production (in addition to labor and saving) provided by private  households. Capital management effort represents such things as  corporate supervision, investment analysis, entrepreneurship, and  related activity by the household which is intended to increase the  rate of return on its capital wealth. As a contribution to the  evaluation of market socialism, this research sheds powerful  illumination on the potential performance of a specific variant of  market socialism known as `pragmatic market socialism'. Pragmatic  market socialism is a plan of market socialism designed to work  `almost exactly' like contemporary capitalism. The key differences  would be the enforcement of a profit incentive on the publicly owned  corporations by an agency designated the Bureau of Public Ownership,  and the distribution of the preponderance of capital property return  produced by the publicly owned corporations as a social dividend  supplement to the household's wage and salary income. The analysis  reported in this book shows precisely under what conditions pragmatic  market socialism would perform better than capitalism, and under what  conditions the opposite would be true. 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