The Breakdown of Nations
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The Breakdown of Nations

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 10 Dec |Learn more

The Breakdown of Nations

About this book

In "The Breakdown of Nations" Leopold Kohr shows that, throughout history, people living in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. Virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang. Rather than making ever-larger political unions, in the belief that this will bring peace and security, we should minimize the aggregation of power by returning to a patchwork of small, relatively powerless states, where leaders are accessible to and responsive to the people.Leopold Kohr, an economist by profesion, was the originator of the concept of 'the human scale', an idea later popularized by E.F. Schumacher in "Small is Beautiful".

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Index

  1. Acadia (Nova Scotia) 1
  2. accumulation, capitalist, law of 1
  3. Acton, Lord 1, 2
  4. aggression, biology of 1
    1. flashpoint of 1
    2. spontaneity of 1
  5. Alexis, Stephen 1
  6. Algeria 1
  7. American Civil War 1, 2
  8. Amritsar 1
  9. Andorra 1
  10. animals, heraldic 1
  11. annihilation, disadvantages of 1
  12. anti-empire 1
  13. Appenzell 1
  14. Argentina 1
  15. Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  16. armies, relative strengths 1
  17. assimilation 1
  18. Attlee, C. R. 1
  19. Augustine, St. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  20. Auriol, President Vincent 1
  21. Australia 1
  22. Austria 1
  23. ‘average man’ 1
  1. Bacon, Francis 1, 2
  2. Bagehot, Walter 1
  3. Baird, H. M. 1
  4. balance, bad, symptoms of 1
    1. in nature 1
    2. mobile and stable 1, 2
  5. bank officers, defalcations of 1
  6. barriers, vs. boundaries 1
  7. Basel 1
  8. Bavaria, Hitler and 1
  9. begging, as profession 1
  10. Beirut conference ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface
  6. Foreword
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. I: The Philosophies of Misery
  10. II: The Power Theory of Aggression
  11. III: Disunion Now
  12. IV: Tyranny in a Small-State World
  13. V: The Physics of Politics: The Philosophic Argument
  14. VI: Individual and Average Man: The Political Argument
  15. VII: The Glory of the Small: The Cultural Argument
  16. VIII: The Efficiency of the Small: The Economic Argument
  17. IX: Union Through Division: The Administrative Argument
  18. X: The Elimination of Great Powers: Can It Be Done?
  19. XI: But Will It Be Done?
  20. XII: The American Empire
  21. Appendices: The Principle of Federation Presented in Maps
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. Copyright