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Appendix: Supporting Sources and Further Reading (Print Version)

1. Wealth Cap

Zidar, Owen, and Matthew Smith. "Wealth Taxation: An Overview of the Issues." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2022.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Wealth-Taxation-An-Overview-of-the-Issues.pdf

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press, 2014.

Saez, Emmanuel, and Gabriel Zucman. "Progressive Wealth Taxation." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2019.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Es-19-Saez-Zucman.pdf

2. Outlaw Arms Trade

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Arms Transfers Database.

https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. "The Arms Trade Treaty."

https://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/att/

Stohl, Rachel, and Suzette Grillot. The International Arms Trade. Polity Press, 2009.

3. Flat Sales Tax, AI/Robot Tax, and Negative Income Tax

Delaney, Kevin J. "The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates." Quartz, 2017.

https://qz.com/911968/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes

Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Mankiw, N. Gregory. "A Proposal for a Carbon Tax with Rebates." Harvard Kennedy School, 2013.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/a_proposal_for_a_carbon_tax_with_rebates.pdf

4. Political Reform

Altman, David. "Term Limits and Their Consequences." Journal of Democracy, 2007.

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/term-limits-and-their-consequences/

Transparency International. "Asset Declarations."

https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/asset-declarations

OECD. "Asset Declarations for Public Officials: A Tool to Prevent Corruption."

https://www.oecd.org/corruption/anti-bribery/Asset-Declarations.pdf

5. Clean Resources: Air, Water, Food

United Nations. "The Human Right to Water and Sanitation."

https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/human_right_to_water.shtml

World Health Organization. "Air Pollution."

https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023."

https://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2023/en/

6. Edible Cities and Resilient Food Systems

Viljoen, Andre, and Katrin Bohn. Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities. Routledge, 2014.

FAO. "Urban Agriculture: FAO's Role in Urban Food Systems."

https://www.fao.org/urban-agriculture/en/

Altieri, Miguel A., et al. "The greening of the ‘barrios’: Urban agriculture for food security in Cuba." Agriculture and Human Values, 1999.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007535300965

7. Right to Stay Analog

Schneier, Bruce. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. W.W. Norton, 2015.

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). "Resilience of Communication Networks."

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/csirt-cert-services/resilience-of-communication-networks

8. Simple Laws Inspired by Wendell Holmes

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. The Common Law. Little, Brown, and Company, 1881.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449

Sunstein, Cass R. "Simplicity in Law." Harvard Law Review, 2018.

https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/simplicity-in-law/

9. Global Debt Jubilee

Hudson, Michael. ...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year. ISLET, 2018.

IMF. "Debt Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative."

https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/08/01/16/11/Debt-Relief-Under-the-Heavily-Indebted-Poor-Countries-Initiative

10. Sustainable and Equitable Currency System

Economist. "Could an energy-backed currency replace the dollar?" The Economist, 2022.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/06/23/could-an-energy-backed-currency-replace-the-dollar

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). "Thorium Fuel Cycle."

https://www.iaea.org/topics/thorium-fuel-cycle

ITER. "Fusion Energy: The ITER Project."

https://www.iter.org/

Lietaer, Bernard. The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity. Random House, 2001.

11. Religion as Private Belief

United Nations. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18."

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

Pew Research Center. "Global Restrictions on Religion."

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/09/30/global-restrictions-on-religion-increased-in-2019/

12. Infrastructure as Societal Wealth Metric

Stiglitz, Joseph E., Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi. "Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress."

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/118025/118123/Fitoussi+Commission+report

UN-Habitat. "Infrastructure for Economic Development and Poverty Reduction."

https://unhabitat.org/infrastructure-for-economic-development-and-poverty-reduction

Scarre, Chris. The Inca: Lost Civilizations. Reaktion Books, 2018.

Further Reading

Schwab, Klaus. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. World Economic Forum, 2016.

Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017.

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