The ROOPA Journey was the original title of this book but has now been changed to Social Cost: The Magic Wand of Social... More > Policy. The ISBN# number allows us to sell this book to the publishing industry, but won't allow us to change the title (on the site only). We keep this title and ISBN# for sales sake, but the text has the latest updated version of ROOPA.

For a review of the book itself, please refer to the other editions of the book. < Less

This is the Abridged Edition with only 10 of the 33 chapters. Half the cost & faster read.

Double our health care benefits... More > while cutting insurance, taxes & gov't bureaucracy by up to 50%. How?

ROOPA works from a social cost based approach to develop new found economic policies. “Social costs” are all the expenses associated with a particular product or activity.

In this book, we show the methods for identifying such social costs and then demonstrate how this data lends itself into specific policy proposals. With ROOPA, you need only follow the cost associated with each step of a product or action to pinpoint the exact spot of greatest cost. Intervene at these points of greatest impact and you beget both the greatest savings and the most effective policy response. < Less

Raghu Giuffre compiled his campaign writings from his run for congress in Hawaii to show a composite of cutting edge... More > thinking left languishing with third party candidates cut off from media coverage. It offers a how-to for deficit reductions of $4 trillion in 6 months without service cuts or tax hikes or solve banking $ real estate crisis without added gov't. Raghu-nomics is a sample to the incredible possibilities overlooked by the media blackout. The specifics of these proposals are second to how much opportunity lies for the taking once we are willing to scratch the surface of America's entrepreneurial genius lying just outside the two party system. < Less

We recognize that there are a host of options remaing to be uncovered that have been entirely overlooked by Washington and... More > Wall Street. We provide a demonstration to the kinds of options that have been overlooked. They are worth trillions and offer to provide the kinds of answers we know are there and just waiting to be tapped. This RADHA program is sure to stir your imagination if not the markets. < Less

America has been so over taken by the two party ideology that it is hard for us to imagine what policies would look like... More > without the Democrat Republican conflict. The policy proposals given here are more a demo of how such policy discussions would sound if we could approach them in their own right without all this ideological baggage.
The Raghu-nomics platform now provides a new staging ground to create a very different kind of dialogue and policy options. Review these here to get a sense to the added versatility this can provide you in your approach to policy issues.
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The irony of this mortgage crisis is that the whole-sale depreciation of the mortgage-backed-securities has always been... More > several times greater than the retail price of the real estate market (or what home-owners could afford to pay). This means that bailing out homeowners would have reinstated Wall Streets’ lost value for about one third the cost banks have been spending to write-off these securities. The difference presents a 50% spread between Wall Streets’ write-downs and the properties values. If only we could overcome the ‘disconnect’ between Wall Street and homeowners. RADHA bridges this great divide to capture that 50% value just waiting to be reclaimed – worth Trillion(s).

Excerpt from Demo 9
(Tapping 50% Spread Between Securities & Real Estate) < Less

Steven Rosen takes us on tour of vices place throughout traditions and religions of history. This work is a small synopsis... More > of this, but it gives us a stronger sense of context and application that is missing in the debates over standards and reforms for vices practice and hazards. The full value of this process becomes more apparent in ROOPA 2 as it tackles the social economic issues of vice as a matter of policy. You will find ROOPA 2 to be a more effective tool of economic reform than other efforts. We credit much of this to the Vice & Virtue paradigm approach. That approach is nicely delineated here by Steven Rosen. He builds the case with his insightful comparatives between different religions dealings of vice. In it, you will see the seeds of ROOPA 2 and the policy programs developed from it. That is the point we wish to make with this edition of ROOPA. < Less

Up to 50% of our taxes & insurance premiums go to cover ‘lifestyle’ activities. Lifestyle is therefore the largest... More > category of discretionary spending with the potential of reducing our costs by up to this same 50%. Lifestyle is also a far more accurate predicator of our future health care needs and social service requirements. This allows lifestyle to provide the best measure of planning & forecast over today’s ‘comparison shopping’ models. ROOPA highlights the number of savings and other advantages gained from this dual track of lifestyle and its corresponding social costs models.
“The ‘social cost’ of obesity averages around $150 billion a year. This comes to about 10 cents per item (of junk food). Every soda pop, hamburger and candy bar will now have this 10 cent premium.
The more soda you drink, the more you have already paid into your own health coverage for obesity. It’s the most affordable ‘pay as you go’ insurance plan. It cost a dime.” < Less

This is the shortened 'Abridged' copy of 175 pages over the other edition on here that is 440 pages. This shorter version... More > has more affordable hard copy & free download. Book Info: Raghu-nomics is a compilation of writings from my Campaign run for congress in Hawaii. It serves as a composite of cutting edge thinking left languishing with third party candidates cut off from media coverage. It offers a series of 'how-tos' in everything from deficit reduction ($4 trillion in 6 months) without service cuts or tax hikes or solving the banking $ real estate crisis without gov't. The specifics of these proposals are second to how much opportunity lies for the taking once we are willing to scratch the surface of America's entrepreneurial-ship lying just outside the two party system. < Less

Raghu Giuffre compiled his campaign writings from his run for congress in Hawaii to show a composite of cutting edge... More > thinking left languishing with third party candidates cut off from media coverage. It offers a how-to for deficit reductions of $4 trillion in 6 months without service cuts or tax hikes or solve banking $ real estate crisis without added gov't. Raghu-nomics is a sample to the incredible possibilities overlooked by the media blackout. The specifics of these proposals are second to how much opportunity lies for the taking once we are willing to scratch the surface of America's entrepreneurial genius lying just outside the two party system. < Less