Economic Revolution: A Twelve Step Program for Building a Better World and Making Big Profits at the Same Time

Kerry Power
Van Publishing (2010)
ISBN 9780615420912
Reviewed by Kathleen Dowdell for Reader Views (12/10)


“Economic Revolution: A Twelve Step Program for Building a Better World and Making Big Profits at the Same Time” is a unique approach which offers concrete steps to change our world and create a new economy that everyone can profit from. But it is more than the title implies. This book is a compilation and general overview of the state of our economy with an in-depth explanation of how we arrived in the financial mess in which we currently reside. This book is Power’s attempt to make a better world by creating a new economy that works for all people. Reading this book will enlighten people about our economic world and help us to understand about debt addition, investments, and government leadership.

I was impressed with the way in which author Kerry Power strategically explains how our government uses its power without our permission to manipulate us as “willing victims” in their favor. Cultural shifts, according to the author, occur every few decades, often overlapping from one era to the next. Currently we are experiencing the sustainable era (2010-2030) transitioning out of the technological era (1980-2010). The lesson behind the cultural shift theory is that change is inevitable and those who resist change will be left in the wake of a fast-moving force that has, and will be painful to deal with. (Step 3 explains this phenomenon in great detail.)

The 12 step program is outlined within three parts: Part I – Personal Steps (preparing yourself for success), Part II – Public Steps (strengthening your community), and Part III – Financial Steps (profiting from the experience). Within each chapter are action steps that explain how to achieve the goals that are laid out within each chapter. The format is easy to follow and allows the reader to indulge in self-evaluation of individual destructive habits and learn motivational steps to change these self destructive habits.

In my opinion Part II (strengthening your community) summarizes the author’s true meaning for writing this book. These four chapters explain why Economic Centralization (as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “to bring under a single, central authority…relating to the production, development, and management of material wealth…) does not work. When too few people have too much power, large amounts of people lose out in their unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Moving away from centralization toward localization is a bold, yet significant, step that will bring our country back to a simpler life-style in which everyone profits and lives within their means. Granted, this change will take a mind shift that not everyone will embrace. And I am unclear how big profits will be made by all people. This is where I see the obstacle of the actualization of this utopian lifestyle he suggests. But Power’s research and futuristic concept is not out of the realm of possibility. It will take a gathering of like forces gaining momentum to make this change happen.

I would recommend “Economic Revolution: A Twelve Step Program for Building a Better World and Making Big Profits at the Same Time” not just for the general information it contains about our economy, but, in addition, for a way in which you can make a difference. Be warned, there is a lot of information in this book and at times I felt overwhelmed. But the facts about how the government controls our economy and the proposed outcomes author Kerry Power envisions make the book worth reading.

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