{"product_id":"beneficial-economics-laurie-thomas-vass-9798218817350","title":"Beneficial Economics: A Red State Citizens Guide to Crafting A Better Constitution When the Government Fails the Citizens.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe starting premise of this book is that the political polarization between citizens in red states and citizens in blue states has reached a threshold level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt this point in American history, middle and working class citizens in red states are confronted with two paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed state citizens could do nothing, and accept the path of blue state Democrat Marxism, that increases the power of the central government over the lives of citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat path leads to a global police state of citizen surveillance and a social credit system controlled by central banks, private corporations, and tech companies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternatively, citizens in red states could restore the original 1776 principles of liberty that animated the first American Revolution, by implementing a decentralized political system, based upon a metro-decentralized entrepreneurial capitalist economic system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe wrote about the irreconcilable cultural and moral differences between citizens in red and blues states, leading up to a political civil dissolution, at this point in history. (Laurie Thomas Vass, A Civil Dissolution: The Best Solution to America's Irreconcilable Ideological Conflict, 2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, we extend our analysis, that after a political civil dissolution, what comes next for citizens in the red states is creating a new, better constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur book explores how red state citizens might craft a more fair constitution that puts political power back in the hands of ordinary people, at the state and local levels of government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe combine a political dissolution with a constitutional dissolution that aims at creating fair economic rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePolitical geographical dissolution\u003c\/strong\u003e - the cultural\/geographic separation along red\/blue state lines that is inevitable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eConstitutional dissolution\u003c\/strong\u003e - the fundamental redesign of economic rules and institutional structures, moving away from Madison's system that enabled the original ruling class aristocracy, that eventually turned into a global predatory state capitalism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie Thomas Vass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218817350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabby Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d","brand":"Laurie Thomas Vass","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114084544767,"sku":"9798218817350","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_72519929-b22f-4f22-9fc6-b119fb6b767e.jpg?v=1769619015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beneficial-economics-laurie-thomas-vass-9798218817350","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}