TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction 1

Part I: Theory

2. The Structure and Intensity of Involvement 6

3. Participation and Quality of Involvement 12

4. A Graphic Representation "From Outer Space" 19

5. Process, Procedure and Optimality 21

6. The Third Leg of Efficiency: Communication and Social

Reflection 28

Part II: Our Imperfect World

7. Our Imperfect World: Introduction 31

8. Working Men and Women and the Minus Sign Syndrome 36

9. Consumption in the Modern Capitalist World 41

10. Education and the Production of Human Capital in the Capitalist

World
46

11. Fundamental Flaws of Capitalist Mind Formation and Their

Interaction 57

12. Ecology and Long Range Development: the 300 Times Syndrome
62

13. Markets for Goods and Services and Externalities 72

 Part III: Towards Optimality

14. Basic Economic Democracy and an Optimal World of 75

Participation

15. Concrete Forms of the Optimal Firm: Legal Statutes and Internal
Structure
84

16. The Support Organization 96

17. The Optimal Society and Education 107

18. Optimality and Economic Planning 114

19. Performance of the Optimal Democratic Economy in

Greater Detail
122

20. Economic Democracy and the Austrians 152

21. Macroeconomic Conduct of Advanced Economies, in Particular

the USA
157

22. Macro-economic Policies: Poor and Equatorial Countries 163

23. A Schema for Intermediate Technology and Life Based on

Renewable Energy
167

24. Decentralization, Structure and Social Optimality 179

25. Systems, Ecology, Location and Transportation 190

Part IV: Spiritual, Biblical and Prophetic Context

26. Stating the Theses 209

27. Introductory Observations 212

28. Essentials of the Father's Messages in the Context of the Unified

Theory
217

29. Elements of Optima in the Spiritual Domain

221

Notes 226