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New World Disorder Book / Table Of Contents


Preface and Overview

Chapter 1: How Our System Works (and Sometimes Doesn’t)

  1. Value
  2. Crisis
  3. Churning and Flailing

Chapter 2: Crises Past

  1. Crisis and Restructuring: 1920-45
  2. Crisis and Restructuring: 1960-80
  3. Churning and Flailing

Chapter 3: Construction of a New World Order: 1979 – Today

  1. Flexible Manufacturing
  2. Flexible Locations
  3. Flexible Workers and Deregulation
  4. Institutionalization of the New World Order
  5. Debt as Fictitious Capital
  6. Debt as Fictitious Product
  7. Outcomes
  8. The Acceleration of Environmental Degradation

Chapter 4: The Self Destruction of the New World Order

  1. Markets and the Self Destruction of the New World Order

a. Markets in Theory
b. Competition in the Real World
c. Markets Without Products
d. Phantom Derivatives Markets
e. Phantom Derivatives Markets: The Case of Housing
f. Phantom Derivatives Markets: The Case of Food

2. Government and the Self Destruction of the New World Order

a. The Reconstruction of Common Sense
b. Elections as Thought Control
c. Economic Policy
d. Militarism
e. Government, Politics and the New World Disorder

Chapter 5: Prospects

  1. More Churning and Flailing

a. Global Intifada
b. Supply Side/Demand Side
c. Permanent Fiscal Crisis
d. Further Environmental Degradation
e. Permanent War and a National Security State
f. The Futile Search for “Best Practices”

2.Challenges to U.S. Domination of Global Capitalism: A Multi Polar World?

a. Can the “G’s” Succeed Where U.S. Capitalism Has Failed?
b. The European Union and the Monetary Union
c. The Second Coming of Simon Bolivar
d. China and the BRICS Alliance
e. The Status of the U. S. Dollar
f. Prospects for a Newer World Order: Today’s “Extractivism”
g. Prospects for a Revolutionary Global Shift
h. Prospects of a New Fascism
i. An Alternative to Fascism A Personal Statement

Glossary of Terms

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David Ranney

David Ranney is Professor Emeritus in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, author, lecturer as well as actor and director in a small community theater.

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