Publisher's Synopsis
Entertaining, intriguing, stimulating, easy to understand, and loaded with great quotes. "When Government Doesn't Work Anymore" is a book about our current American and global economic crisis and the failure of nation-based governmental and economic systems to respond to global change. The book cleverly uses the Monopoly game and medieval references to peasants and feudal lords to draw analogies to our modern world in Western economies. The modern day peasants are stuck playing a Perpetual Monopoly game in their real lives, a game which creates institutionalized wealth, privilege, and the Loser's Paradox. The peasants are restless and the economic uprising is here; a social upheaval that cuts across race, age, gender, education, and national borders. An uprising fueled by an inter-connected and inter-dependent global citizen that is more intelligent, capable, and enlightened than ever before. The book introduces the coming Age of Cooperation in which the citizens on the little blue planet eventually force the privileged and the wealthy to cooperate in order to succeed. A vibrant discussion of the wealth and income gap, social mobility, and the state of humanity are brilliantly interwoven with levity and cartoons to make it fun and entertaining to read.
