3. Although they come from different work contexts and countries, the members of Deconcentration International share a fundamental perspective: "Not the misuse of economic power is to be fought against, but the economic power itself." (Walter Eucken)
4. How can power minimization be accomplished? In the different areas of law – corporate law, liability law, trademark law, patent law, and tax law to constitutional law – the prevailing legal circumstances have to be changed so that the compulsion towards concentration of power can be transformed into a trend towards deconcentration. For example the copyright and patent law established by the government makes it possible for Microsoft to monopolize markets. What would happen, if the states no longer protected the monopoly on software? How would it be, if the principle of "open sources" – with the help of democratic laws and constitutional rules – were extended to large areas of the economy ? What are the chances, and what are the problems? These are the questions asked by Deconcentration International.
5. Deconcentration International is an open forum: for city planners with planning ideas to minimize the influence of big investors, as it is for biologists and farmers engaged against biopatents or for constitutional lawyers who develop constitutional proposals for a corporate-free European democracy. Today the concentration of economic power has became a global problem. At the same time, new chances for dissolving oligopolies are growing. If the legal framework is rearranged towards the minimization of power, the potential of technologies which have been neglected up to now (for example, solar technology) can be expanded. What could be achieved if our ecological resources (for example, water and seed) as well as the infrastructure (for example, Internet and electricity) were withdrawn from the corporations and changed into "common ground" of the globalized economy.