Lyndon LaRouche offers a unique approach to economic analysis. Instead of measuring economic strength by financial and monetary aggregates (the price any fool is willing to pay for real estate or stock in a "bubble" market, or the amount of green slips of paper any government is willing to print out to keep those bubbles inflated) he measures it by what is happening to the physical economy (construction of rail systems, power plants, water ways, machine-tool production and consumption, and agricultural yeild).

And, instead of approaching the economy the way that an accountant would (focusing on immediate costs and benefits without looking at hidden costs or long-term consequences), he approaches the economy as a scientist and a poet would, by asking what the underlying axioms are that drive current economic policy decisions -- and where must those axioms and policies will lead us over the next 25-year interval.

This gives his work a refreshing dose of reality that is missing from other books on this topic. If, in the 90s, you thought dot coms were sustainable and if you thought, in 2000, that Enron was a good place to put a chunk of your life savings, you should have been reading LaRouche to avoid being taken for a ride -- and fleeced of your cash. But, as LaRouche points out, this is all part of a much bigger and long-term picture.

What LaRouche has to say about the current state of the global economy is even more important than what he has said before. And the stakes in the heist that is currently underway are far greater than those for any particular household, tragic as that would be. You should read this book.

What a remarkable piece of absolute genious. I have a new found hope after reading this book written by one of the most profound (and correct) economists, philosophers, and scientists of our time, Lyndon LaRouche.

Lyndon LaRouche completely shattered all my previous feelings about the man. Not only does the book authoritatively demonstrate a way out of our financial crisis, it demonstrates that there is an American System of Political Economy that is not capitalism or communism--and it works. Adam Smith, Karl Marx, step aside: make plenty of room for the economics genius of our time!

Anton Chaitkin was persecuted for releasing the most in depth research on the traitors to America throughout it's existance. Anton Chaitkin also uncovered the document from the library of congress proving that Bush Sr's father, Presscott Bushes bank "Union Bank" was shut down by Roosevelt in 1942, under the trading with the pact for funding the Nazi party and Thyssin Steel money. Fritz Thyssin wrote the book "I funded Hitler" and was responsible for more than 50% of the war drive steel and iron. Democratic Presidental Candidate Lyndon LaRouche has exposed these impierail traitors to the ideas of the American Revolution the the civil rights movement. It is time we Americans got off our high and holy degenerate [behinds] and acted in the spirits of Ben Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Aberham Lincoln, McKinley, and FDR.

This book has to be one of the most important books that any media scientist could possibly read. It is pure art in the sense of art as an updater of consciousness.Wonderful book.

You can study American History in High School or College, but you will never get the in depth research involved in this book. I have never seen such a great list of referances andbibliography. Why haven't more historians been able to just tell it like it is instead of just sucking up to New World Order Crazies? How many people have ever heard of the "American System of Economics" as opposed to the British East India "Free Trade Buy cheap,Sell dear slavocracy. If you really want to know your history, Read this book and study its' referances.

Lyndon LaRouches leadership and quality of never settling for anything less than the absolute truth is the type of agape a US president needs. If we wish to get the founding fathers, the highest ideals of the American Revolution tracing back to the Golden Renaissance and back to Plato and Socrates, LaRouche is the man to vote for. For the sake of civilization, let's do it in 2004.

For those of you who have never heard of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche Movement - like me up until a few weeks ago - this book is an essential and comprehensive introduction to their ideas and the terrible injustice brought upon Michael Billington and others like him by elements of the United States government. This is a story about ideas, a group of people with a passion and mission to change the world and the people who tried to stop them.

Here we have a book which takes on Malthusianism not at its third-rate empirical premises but at its fundamental philosophical premises--those concerning the nature of humanity and its place in the universe. LaRouche shows that the real issue is whether the human being is the rationally creative being--which he proves that we are--or just another adaptive beast in the jungle. This is the book that the Malthusians, Zero Growthers, environmentalists, Deep Ecologists, and World Wildlifers would like to pretend doesn't exist. A very refreshing viewpoint, with a penetrating cogency.

Lyndon larouche's greatest weakness is perhaps his greatest asset--his mind.

There is no question that Larouche is a genius-he has a firm grasp of economics, for eg., and his conspiracy theories often ring true. Still, he seems incapable of putting his ideas simply and straightforwardly to the US public he hopes to win over to the "New Renaissance" he hopes to bring to the USA.

The Power of Reason appears less a glimpse of Larouche the man rather than Larouche the idealogue. For someone as clearly intelligent as he is this is a serious problem.

Milton Friedman, you have nothing to worry about. Even though LaRouche launches a furious and often credible attack against Friedman's concept of the "Consumption Function," for which Mr. Friedman largely became famous, the substance of the author's argument falls flat in the context of the larger evolution of the global economic paradigm. The author provides the reader with a short read, full of "LaRouchianisms," however, the economic purist may be intrigued by the author's system of accounting which does not "double count" services in the nation's gross national product calculation . If you're a protectionist, an anti-internationalist, and anti-Federal Reservist, you'll love the book. If not, you'll probably use the book as a humorous conversation piece for all of your historically and politically enlightened party guests. Don't take this as a suggestion for a party theme, however. You might find yourself with left with caviar and bubbly for one (which is not too bad, I suppose)...

Lyndon LaRouche challenged Milton Friedman to a debate in the early 70s in a major US campus. Friedman admitted that his policies are a copy of Hjalmars Schachts economic policies,...who was Hitlers main economist. The policies of Schacht are those based on Malthusian 'dog eat dog' of limited resources and literally advocates slavery as the best form of economics. Friedman says the best way to make money is to cut costs in a plantation type of governing, like the slave labour south, or the nazi concentration camps. LaRouche is the leading figure for the American System of Economics...

LaRouche proceeds to jump around from multiply connected Reimannian manifolds, to neoKantian romanticism, to shakespeare, to Plato, to Moses Mendelssohn...While obviously a well read, if not necessarily insightful fellow, L.L. chooses to change his topic and approach constantly in lieu of adding any weight or coherence to his arguments. While some of ideas are supported by vague notions, brash but ultimately ineffectual intellectual showmanship, and above all circumstatial evidence, they do make one very strong case based on all this innuendo: that LaRouche is a paranoid demagogue who will say anything to convince his reader of his intellectual superiority, simply in order to prevent the reader from question his always outrageous claims. Add equal parts genuis, plagiarized from throughout intellectual history, sprinkle on a few graphs without inflation adjusted dollars, and viola! There you have it.

What is distinctive about LaRouche's approach to the economy is that he does not focus on mere increases or decreases in share-prices in the stock market or prices in real estate, neither of which necessarily reflects the actual state of the economy.

Nor does he focus simply on production, which can be ratched up and quickly exhausted if a society does not investment in replenishing and upgrading its productive capacity.

Rather, what LaRouche looks at is the relative increase or decrease in the production of the capacity of a society to produce, and this over the long-term of 25-year intervals.

He goes behind all of the smoke and mirrors and tinsel that capture the imaginations of most economists, and gets down to fundamental issues.

Relative economic strength or weakness must always be situated within a systemic framework. You have to examine the long-term health of that system; that, and the prevailing axiomatic-like assumptions about the economy, which will determine whether or not productive capacity will be built for future.

It is a book well worth reading, and is easily worth ten times the price on the cover.

I read this book just to see what the other half says.

It doesn't take one long to see that King is out to smear LaRouche.

I personally try to look for truth and honesty, and with this book it is easy to see why people in this country (USA) in particular, have a hard time trying to find out what is true!

Having read many of LaRouche's writings, and seen him on video etc., the King book is so unbelieveable!
But for those who want to do a study, you should first read what King says, then go and read what LaRouche and his associates say...they are right on !

One thing that I didn't understand though was that King referenced a quote by one of Reagan's National Security Advisors, as saying something like, 'LaRouche has one of the best private intelligence networks in the world'.

Which not only lends credibility to LaRouche...but is true !!

LaRouche is more influential then ever...where is King?

It is rare when someone is able to so profoundly understand how a politically subversive man and his organization can infiltrate into American life. If we learn anything from Dennis King, it is that American liberty can be used for good and it is vulnerable to those who would destroy it. In the latter case, the only remedy is for Americans to understand and to take action against men like Lyndon LaRouche and his fanatical followers. Particularly important in Lyndon LaRouches and the New American Fascism is a magnificent analysis of the "code" language that is used by these fanatics to confuse the public, while communicating with others who are like-minded. Dennis King ought to be commended for great effort to protect the Constitution and the American republic!

The abusive reviews of this book are obviously the work of LaRouche supporters. Although Lyn's organization is now a pitiful shell of its old, well-funded self, King's book remains an important reference for anyone concerned with the stinkier fringes of American politics.

Unfortunately, however, the volume gives the reader little understanding of LaRouche's charisma or the personal history that must lie behind his more bizarre rantings -- especially his wierd psychosexual theories. His contempt/fear for women and his obsession with anal and fecal imagery makes it seem likely he is tormented by homosexual desire. LaRouche's identification with Socrates (making his followers attractive young Athenians in love with him) tends to confirm this. Perhaps another book on LaRouche remains to be written, ideally by someone qualified to dispense thorazine.

In the meantime, King's account of the LaRouche group's shadowy connections and neo-Nazi ideology is the definitive study of a "little man" who puffed himself up to world-historical dimensions: a figure at once dangerous and absurd.