The
Economic Structure of the Republic of BooklandCapitalistCommunism
Our economy is based upon a new concept which is an amalgam of two older concepts.Karl Marx's watershed book, ostensibly about capital, is really a rant about class warfare with insights about capital thrown in for context. It's so poorly written and so judgmental that it's easy to overlook the fact that the world is starting to look the way Marx said it would.
CapitalistCommunism replaces the class warfare rants with questions about providing well-being for large numbers of people in an age when information dissemination and transactions no longer require newspapers or offices full of filing cabinets, when manufacturing is so efficient that something as complex as a DVD player costs little more than the cost of packaging and distribution, and when open source software reduces the cost of the machinery of business to just the cost of installation and maintenance.
[insert Open Source Economics link]
As an optimocracy, Bookland puts people with engineering skills in control of regulation of its CapitalistCommunist economy. Commissioners work with
Economic Education
To avoid the economic problems experienced by other nations [link to WSJ story about over-leverage, the thrift disaster, etc.], Bookland requires all students to pass courses, economics.