Kingonomics: Twelve Innovative Currencies for Transforming Your Business and Life Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In this time of economic turmoil, the reformist urge comes naturally. Business developer and advisor Sampson seeks to frame his suggestions in a more acceptable context by using the works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., invoking an age when successful changes were carried out in marked contrast to today’s political stalemate. Sampson offers 12 innovations to improve readers’ lives, innovations for which he can find precedence in King’s essays; King being a prolific author, he is a useful source for this type of motivational book. These new rules include selflessness, cooperation, honesty, imagination, diversity, and optimism, but they are unified by a general positivity and a belief that Americans are not stuck in a zero-sum game. Transforming American society is a task within America’s reach, Sampson suggests, if only its citizens can be convinced to understand how interconnected they are. Sampson’s prose is for the most part straightforward and his arguments clearly stated and contextualized; his work joins the ranks of reformist economic tracts, a very American genre. Agent: Michael Ebeling and Kristina Holmes, Ebeling & Associates. (Jan.)