Re-solving the Economic Puzzle

Walter Rybeck

[Published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers Ltd., 2011]

• Title Page
• Endorsements
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction

PART 1: ANOTHER CRACK IN THE LIBERTY BELL

• Chapters 1-3:
  * Problems Hidden in Full Sunlight * 'Secret' Remedy that Works * What Is This Thing Called Land?

PART 2: EMBARRASSMENT OPENS A DOOR

• Chapters 4:
  * Newsroom, Columbus Citizen, 1951

PART 3: A JOURNEY OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY

• Chapters 5-13:
  * The Earth, Our Home * Land of Opportunity * The Call to make a Better World
  * That's Business * War or Peace? * A Glimpse of Utopia * Dreams of a Castle
  * A Far Cry from Home * Eden, Darwin and Free Land

PART 4: THROUGH A LAND LENS

• Chapters 14-21:
  * Columbus -- Ode to a Bug * Dayton -- Ode to a Book * Washington Assignment
  * The Douglas Commission * A Capital Idea * In a Think Tank * In the House * Dialogue
  

PART 5: FORGOTTEN CHAPTERS IN U.S. HISTORY

• Chapters 22-27:
  * America's Big Attraction * Old World Baggage * Land Grabbing, Land Abuse
  * Three Saving Graces * Fundamentals Forgotten * Competing Philosophies
  

PART 6: LIVING LABORATORIES

• Chapters 28-30:
  * U.S. Success Stories * Overseas Success Stories * Taxing Natural Resources
  

PART 7: RECLAIMING AMERICA

• Chapters 31-32:
  * Ten Vital Paths * Recovery, Jobs and Social Harmony

APPENDICES

• A-E:
  * Education Alone Could Fail * Many Voices on Land Policy Reform Issues
  * Douglas Commission Testimony * Starcke's Unique Sermon * A Property Tax Primer

• Index