The World's Wasted Wealth: The Political Economy Of Waste By J.W. Smith
The World's Wasted Wealth: The Political Economy Of Waste (Author-Signed & Dedicated Presentation Copy with Inclusions)
A Groundbreaking, Common-Sense Assessment of Economic Justice, Structural Inefficiency, and Constitutional Rights
A Groundbreaking, Common-Sense Assessment of Economic Justice, Structural Inefficiency, and Constitutional Rights
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The World's Wasted Wealth: The Political Economy Of Waste
- Author: J.W. Smith
- Publisher: New Worlds Press, California
- Publication Date: 1989
- ISBN-10: 0962442305
- ISBN-13: 9780962442308
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author. Features the author's original visiting/business card laid in.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium hardcover binding, spine lettered in gilt, with original typographical dust jacket housed under a protective archival wrap.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 300 pages.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Exterior / Boards: The cloth boards are exceptionally flat, bright, and square. The corners remain sharp with minor, normal storage friction. The spine is perfectly straight, tight, unbroken, and completely undamaged, showing zero structural lean.
o Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and immaculately preserved. Internal pages are entirely clean, crisp, and free of standard user highlighting, previous owner gift inscriptions, or dog-ears. This book has clearly been well-maintained and looked after thus far.
o Provenance & Special Features: Hand-signed by the author on the preliminary leaf. Accompanied by the author’s original personal visiting card, adding premium historical and collectible provenance.
o Special Protection: Housed under a premium, fitted cellophane cover for advanced archival preservation. -
The Dust Jacket: Very Good (VG)
o Description: Complete and bright, now beautiful stabilized and protected under the cellophane wrapper. Displays some expected wear, shelf friction, and light structural creasing along the outer perimeter edges and spine areas, fully consistent with careful long-term storage.
Synopsis & Corporate Value
Published in 1989, The World's Wasted Wealth is J.W. Smith’s seminal, paradigm-shifting political economic treatise targeting the systemic structural inefficiencies of modern industrial capitalism. Far from an abstract text written by an ivory tower intellectual, this work serves as an accessible, common-sense assessment of constitutional rights, monopolistic practices, and global economic justice. Following the intellectual lineages of Thorstein Veblen and Stuart Chase, Smith painstakingly demonstrates how commercial protectionism, engineered obsolescence, and hyper-militarisation waste roughly 50% of society's productive labor. He argues that by eliminating structural waste and sharing remaining productive employment, global citizens could radically reduce working hours while dramatically improving their quality of life. As an author-signed first-edition hardcover containing original institutional ephemera, this scarce asset is a premier addition for antiquarian collectors of heterodox economics, labor histories, and unique institutional provenance.
Published in 1989, The World's Wasted Wealth is J.W. Smith’s seminal, paradigm-shifting political economic treatise targeting the systemic structural inefficiencies of modern industrial capitalism. Far from an abstract text written by an ivory tower intellectual, this work serves as an accessible, common-sense assessment of constitutional rights, monopolistic practices, and global economic justice. Following the intellectual lineages of Thorstein Veblen and Stuart Chase, Smith painstakingly demonstrates how commercial protectionism, engineered obsolescence, and hyper-militarisation waste roughly 50% of society's productive labor. He argues that by eliminating structural waste and sharing remaining productive employment, global citizens could radically reduce working hours while dramatically improving their quality of life. As an author-signed first-edition hardcover containing original institutional ephemera, this scarce asset is a premier addition for antiquarian collectors of heterodox economics, labor histories, and unique institutional provenance.
Author Profile: J.W. Smith
Dr J.W. Smith (1930–2014) was a highly respected independent political economist, social philosopher, and founder of the Institute for Economic Democracy. Diverging sharply from orthodox neoliberal academia, Smith dedicated his professional career to researching the structural mechanics of wealth concentration, corporate resource control, and structural unemployment. His acclaimed multi-volume historical collections, including The World's Wasted Wealth 2 and Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-First Century, are celebrated by alternative macroeconomic researchers for their lucid narrative pace and devastating deconstructions of geopolitical monopolies. His literature remains heavily sought after by economic archivists for its unyielding commitment to practical, democratic wealth distribution models.
Dr J.W. Smith (1930–2014) was a highly respected independent political economist, social philosopher, and founder of the Institute for Economic Democracy. Diverging sharply from orthodox neoliberal academia, Smith dedicated his professional career to researching the structural mechanics of wealth concentration, corporate resource control, and structural unemployment. His acclaimed multi-volume historical collections, including The World's Wasted Wealth 2 and Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-First Century, are celebrated by alternative macroeconomic researchers for their lucid narrative pace and devastating deconstructions of geopolitical monopolies. His literature remains heavily sought after by economic archivists for its unyielding commitment to practical, democratic wealth distribution models.
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