The Prosperity Plan (The Build-a-Better-World) the only way to maintain widespread, well-founded prosperity and free enterprise in any society without war, without debt, without hardship, without inflation, without high taxes, without big government and w

264 Pages·1972·9.44 MB·English

by  Albert Archer Van Petten

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THE PROSPERITY PLAN
THE BUILD-A-BETTER-WORLD SERIES
The Prosperity Plan (1972)
The Better-Government Plan (in preparation)
PROSPERITY
THE
PROSPERITY
PLAN
The only way to maintain
widespread, well-founded prosperity
and free enterprise
in any society
without war
without debt
without hardship
without inflation
without high taxes
without big government
and without communism
UTOPIAN PUBLISHERS
A.A.VAN PETTEN
THE BUI LD-A- BETTER-WOR LD SERIES
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© , Albert Archer Van Petten, 1972
All rights reserved.
Copyright, 1972, by A. A. Van Petten
No parts of this book may be reproduced except for
short passages quoted for criticism and review.
Published by Utopian Publishers
Box 419, Woomera, South Australia 5720
9052 Pioneer Drive, Huntington Beach, California 92646, USA
Dewey-Decimal-Classification Number is 330.1.
National-Library-of-Australia-Card Number and
International Standard Book Number is 0-909460-00-0.
USA-Library-of-Congress-Catalog-Card Number is 73-171487.
Registered in Australia for transmission by post as a book.
Text typeface is 12-point bold Monotype Plantin, leaded 3 points.
Text paper is 100 grams per square meter.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Author’s Preface iv
Text from book-jacket flaps
V
About the Author vi
Chapter 1: Hasty 1
Chapter 2: Average Man
32
Chapter 3: Banker
63
Chapter 4: Ambitious Man
7i
Chapter 5: Moneymaker
73
Chapter 6: Businessman 86
Chapter 7: Lawyer
93
Chapter 8: Philosopher
95
Chapter 9: Adam Smith
no
Chapter 10: Malthus 114
Chapter 11: Socialists 114
Chapter 12: Henry George 128
Chapter 13: John Maynard Keynes 132
Chapter 14: Blair Moody
134
Chapter 15: Sumner Schlichter 136
Chapter 16: Leon Keyserling 140
Chapter 17: Senator Goldwater
M3
Chapter 18: Professor Galbraith 149
Chapter 19: Dean Rostow 164
Chapter 20: Dean Wernette 187
Chapter 21: Stickler 203
Letters
237
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Chart i. Variation of Value with Distance 211
Chart 2. Variation of “Service Value” of Real Wealth 213
Chart 3. Variation of “Exchange Value” of Real Wealth 214
Chart 4. Combination of “Exchange Value” and “Service
Value” 215
Chart 5. Combination of All Values for Real Wealth 216
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE
It is essential that the people of the world find a way to
maintain continual prosperity and free enterprise. Otherwise,
we and our children will suffer needless starvation, poverty, and
other hardships.
This book describes an economic improvement that will
provide the desired prosperity without the undesired big govern¬
ment. It is a very simple improvement and can be described in
only a few words. It is simply this: we must ensure that most of
our real wealth is used in the most efficient manner. This
efficient use will provide the desired prosperity.
The proposal should not be interpreted to mean that we turn
over more control to the politicians. On the contrary, the
politicians are frequently the least efficient users of real wealth.
The Prosperity Plan described herein shows how we can achieve
prosperity, efficient use, and free enterprise simultaneously.
I stress that the dialogs in the book are my own creations.
They do not represent actual conversations.
Woomera, South Australia A. A. Van Petten
May 12, 1971
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