Now The Synthesis: Capitalism, Socialism & the New Social Contract

Richard Noyes, Editor

[1991]

• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction

I: A HOLISTIC PHILOSOPHY

• Chapter 1:
  Dialectics and the Millennium: emergence of the Synthesis, by Richard Noyes

II: THE TRANSFORMATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Chapter 2:
  Property Rights and the Social Contract: the constitutional challenge in the U.S.A., by Nicolaus Tideman
• Chapter 3:
  'Planning Gain': the making of a tax on land values, by Francis M. Smith

III: THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS

• Chapter 4:
  Post-socialism and the Single Tax: a holistic philosophy, by Fred Harrison
• Chapter 5:
  Conflict, Ideology and Hope in Central America, by James L. Busey
• Chapter 6:
  Land Policy and the Economics of Colonial Exploitation, by Jerome F. Heavey

IV: ECOLOGY AND ECO-POLITICS

• Chapter 7:
  The Greens and the Tax on Rent, by David Richards
• Chapter 8:
  Incentive Taxation and the Environment: complex -- yet feasible, by Jurgen Backhaus and Jacob Jan Krabbe

V: INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Chapter 9:
  Protectionism, Rent and the Dynamics of Agricultural Degradation, by Richard Body
• Chapter 10:
  Trade and Investment: preserving the fruits of liberty, by C. Lowell Harriss

• About the Authors
• APPENDIX:
  Open Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev and on Technical Issues
• Index