The Small Nation Solution: How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems
In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is a simple idea with profound implications. He spotlights successful small nations around the world as the best working models of sustainable sociocultural systems and shows how these diverse small nations can be the building blocks of a transformed global system that could save the world.
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The Small Nation Solution: How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems
In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is a simple idea with profound implications. He spotlights successful small nations around the world as the best working models of sustainable sociocultural systems and shows how these diverse small nations can be the building blocks of a transformed global system that could save the world.
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The Small Nation Solution: How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems
In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is a simple idea with profound implications. He spotlights successful small nations around the world as the best working models of sustainable sociocultural systems and shows how these diverse small nations can be the building blocks of a transformed global system that could save the world.
John H. Bodley is Regents Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsPart I. Big Problems, Small Nation SolutionsChapter 1. The Big Problem: Elite-Directed GrowthChapter 2. Finding the Right Size: Why Small Nations SucceedPart II. Small Nations Show the WayChapter 3. Small Nation Market Capitalism: The Agoria PathChapter 4. Ecodemia: Small Nation Cooperative Economies Chapter 5. Arcadia: Environmentally Friendly Small NationsPart III. How Small Nations Could Reshape the WorldChapter 6. Small Nation Solutions for the Pacific Northwest, 2025Chapter 7. United Small Nations of America: Why and HowChapter 8. United Small Nations of the World: Confronting Poverty and Global WarmingSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Author