The Wealth of the People: The Wealth of Social Capital

The “Wealth of the People” Book Series:

The task of explaining the causes of the wealth of the people in a society is a complex subject for a single e-book. To facilitate the explanation and the delivery of the material, one e-book will be published in each set of topics.

The following are the titles of the book series:

Your Wealth
The first book looks at the time savings and the wealth gained by a single person increasing his Physical and Human Capital in an island.

The Wealth of Your Neighbor
The second book is about the agreements that two people have to make to be in a path to increase their respective wealth. These agreements become their Social Capital.

The Wealth of the Market
The third book explains the opportunities offered by a free market to produce wealth for the people that participate in it. This book explains the wealth gains that result when there is a market that brings the competitive advantage of every individual to the market.

The Wealth of the Business Enterprise
The fourth book is about the function of the business enterprise to produce wealth for its customers, its owners, and its employees.

The Wealth of the State
The fifth book discusses what happens when we remove the assumption that everybody is going to behave correctly. The book explores the historical formation of the State and the implications for the production of wealth. The level at which the State supports and protects the wealth production process is the level of Social Capital of the nation.

The Wealth of Social Capital
The sixth book is the core of the series. Social Capital is defined as the ability of a society to learn and agree on the rules that are necessary for the production of wealth. This is the key for the wealth of the people in society. This is the ingredient that is a prerequisite for the buildup of Physical with its corresponding Human Capital that determines if a nation can be wealthy.

The Wealth of Physical Capital
The seventh book is about the wealth of the Physical Capital that humanity has today. It should make you grateful that you live in this age and not five hundred or five thousand years ago.

The Wealth of Human Capital
The eighth book is about the wealth of the Human Capital that humanity has today. A great deal of the Human Capital available is taken for granted and a great deal is wasted so it will be good to review the major advances in Human Capital.

The Wealth of a Nation
The ninth book takes us to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations book. A nation is an entity that comprises a geographical area with a legal setting. It is governed by a State that is the keeper of the citizen's charter. The State maintains the rules of a nation’s Social Capital and thus determines the capital structure of the nation and its citizens and in this way the State operates is a key factor that results in wealth, freedom, and life for its citizens.

The Wealth of the Planet Earth
The tenth book is about our planet. It introduces the concept of Natural Capital. What we think as natural resources is actually the capitalization of life that has been happening for millions of years. Unfortunately, many of the actions that we do in the pursuit of wealth production reduce the planet’s natural capital. If the planet was treated as a capital asset, it would be maintained correctly and it would not be consumed risking lowering the income level of all the people in the world.

The Wealth of the Human Spirit
The eleventh book will be an inquiry about what these economic principles might mean for a spiritual world.