Preface to the Third Edition   

Introduction: “Where Countless Honors Wait”   

What is the American Essence?    

At the Gates of Tomorrow’s Yesterday          

Section One: Key Terminology

Incentives       
Supply and Demand   
Kapital
Intent  
Command and Obedience      
Arbeit and Geld         
Zeit     
Schuld
Financial Regime       
State, Totality, and Self          
Synchronicity 
Work-Intensity, Work-Productivity, and Force Multiplication           
State Budget, State Revenue, and State Expense      
Real Trade and Free Trade     
Student Economies and Digital Economies
World State Organization       

Section Two: Characteristics of Sociable Currency

The Four Functions and Six Attributes of Currencies           
Theories of Value (Pt. I of II)
Theories of Value (Pt. II of II)
Theories of Money (Pt. I of II)
Theories of Money (Pt. II of II)          
Currency Depreciation/Appreciation (Pt. I of II)      
Currency Depreciation/Appreciation (Pt. II of II)      
‘Death-by-Overwork’, the Work-Standard’s Version of Hyperinflation        
Monetary Expansion/Contraction      
Is the Work-Standard Constitutional?
The Transitional Period

Section Three: Economic Governance          

Types of Economic Organizations 
Economic Governance Types and Economic Planning Models        
How the Economy Creates Arbeit     
How Arbeit is Converted into Geld   
How the Central Bank sets the Exchange Rates under the Work-Standard   
How the State receives Revenue and allocates the Budget   
How the State implements and enforces the Paygrade Scale
Why Vocations are the only Acceptable Source of Arbeit     
Why Vocations need Geld to contribute Arbeit         

Section Four: Political Governance of the Work-Standard    

Councils and Parliaments       
Functions of Council Democracy      
Council Democracy in Action
Types of Media          
On Direct Orders       
A Constitution of Intents and Obligations     
A Legal Code of Duties and Rights   
The State’s Educational Policies and Ranking System          
State Issuance of Medals, Awards, Commendations and Promotions           

Section Five: The Financial Regime

State of Total Mobilization     
Primer on Tournaments, Banking, Taxation and Welfare      
The Transvaluation of all Arbeit        
National-Socialization Principle        
Productive and Personal Properties
Taxation and the Work-Standard (Pt. I of III) 
Taxation and the Work-Standard (Pt. II of III) 
Taxation and the Work-Standard (Pt. III of III) 
Fractional-Reserve and Full-Reserve Banking          
Reciprocal-Reserve Banking 
Financial Markets and the Kontore   
Mission-Type Economic Planning     
Financial Instruments of the Kontore
Wartime Preparations and the Work-Standard (Pt. I of III)    
Wartime Preparations and the Work-Standard (Pt. II of III)    
Wartime Preparations and the Work-Standard (Pt. III of III)    

Section Six: International Trading Policies   

On International Trade and Investment          
CMEA’s Fixed Exchange Rates and its Hard Currency Shops         
Japan’s Lost Decades and the Rise of Zombie Firms and Zombie Banks    
Exchange Rates and the Impossible Trinity   
Applications of Autarkic and Protectionist Trade Policies    
On Movements of Arbeit, Geld, and Information      
On Formation of Customs Unions and Monetary Unions                 
Political-Economic and Currency Unions     
Potential Feasibility of the Work-Standard as a World Reserve Currency    

Section Seven: Work-Standard Applications of Technology

Introduction to the Art of Technology           
The Tactical Logic of Technology     
The Operational Logic of Technology           
The Strategic Logic of Technology  
Artistic Creativity and Innovative Ingenuity with the Work-Standard            
Expressing Identities through Technology    
Project Cybersyn and Ernst Jünger’s ‘Phonophores’ and ‘Luminar’
The Internet, the Y2K Bug, and the Work-Standard’s Mechanization Rate  
Why the “Splinternet” is an Alternative to the World Wide Web (WWW)   
Technology and the War Effort (Pt. I of III)   
Technology and the War Effort (Pt. II of III)   
Technology and the War Effort (Pt. III of III)   

Section Eight: Basic Guide to WSA

Introduction to Command-Obedience Account Bookkeeping          
National Accounts (Pt. I of IV)           
National Accounts (Pt. II of IV)           
National Accounts (Pt. III of IV)           
National Accounts (Pt. IV of IV)           
State Accounts
Communion, Social and Household Accounts          
Domestic and Foreign Accounts        
WSA Financial Reports         
State Budgetary Allocations 
Paygrades and Prices 

Section Nine: The Federalist Worldview

Goals of the Federalist Worldview    
America as Perpetual Union
Historical Development of American Federalism      
Interpreting the US Constitution        
Hamiltonianism in Contemporary America (Pt. I of II)     
Hamiltonianism in Contemporary America (Pt. II of II)        
America under Jeffersonianism          
Another World Order?           

Section Ten: The Federalist American Union

Temporary Happiness or Eternal Glory (Pt. I of II)
Temporary Happiness of Eternal Glory? (Pt. II of II)
Returning to the American Essence (Pt. I of II)
Returning to the American Essence (Pt. II of II)
“Greater America Amendment?”

Conclusion: Neither Democrat nor Republican but Federalist!