Introduction: A Guide for the Perplexed | p. 1 |
The Failure of Economics | p. 11 |
The illusion ofInvincibility | p. 14 |
The Failure of Markets | p. 19 |
Harnessing Hippogriffs | p. 23 |
The Market as Commons | p. 27 |
Energy's Rules | p. 30 |
Lies and Statistics | p. 33 |
Economic Superstitions | p. 39 |
Undead Money | p. 43 |
The Three Economies | p. 49 |
The Power of Paradigms | p. 54 |
Primary and Secondary Goods | p. 59 |
Exchange Value and Nature's Wealth | p. 62 |
The Anti-Ecology of Money | p. 68 |
The Finance Trap | p. 74 |
Before Money | p. 78 |
The Metaphysics of Money | p. 85 |
The Metastasis of Money | p. 92 |
The Flight into Abstraction | p. 98 |
The Twilight of Money | p. 103 |
The Money Bubble | p. 105 |
The End of Investment | p. 109 |
The Wealth Of Nature | |
The Price of Energy | p. 115 |
Energy Follows Its Bliss | p. 120 |
A Crisis of Concentration | p. 127 |
Barbarism and Good Brandy | p. 131 |
Working With Diffuse Energy | p. 136 |
The Economics of Entropy | p. 144 |
The Appropriate Tools | p. 149 |
The End of the Information Age | p. 155 |
The Economics of Contraction | p. 160 |
The Twilight of the Machine | p. 164 |
Toward Appropriate Technologies | p. 170 |
Becoming a Third World Country | p. 178 |
The Twilight of the American Empire | p. 183 |
Survival Isn't Cost Effective | p. 187 |
The Road Ahead | p. 191 |
Remembering What Worked | p. 194 |
Defending the Commons | p. 198 |
Taxing the Right Things | p. 202 |
Housebreaking the Corporations | p. 207 |
A Crisis of Complexity | p. 213 |
Back to the Future | p. 219 |
A Future of Victory Gardens | p. 222 |
After Retirement | p. 229 |
Afterword: Small Is Beautiful | p. 233 |
Notes | p. 245 |
Bibliography | p. 251 |
Index | p. 257 |
About the Author | p. 263 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Hell on Earth | |
The Set Up | p. 5 |
The Disclosure | p. 23 |
The Desert of Recovery | |
My New Reality | p. 35 |
Digging Deeper | p. 45 |
Real Life Begins in Tucson | p. 55 |
Going Home | p. 67 |
Growing Pains | p. 83 |
A Spiritual Awakening | p. 95 |
Who's Your Gail? | p. 109 |
A New Low | p. 121 |
Healing | |
Getting Over Myself | p. 141 |
Never Say Never | p. 167 |
A New Day | p. 195 |
Eight Challenges to Consider | p. 211 |
About the Author | p. 225 |
ATribute | p. 227 |
Acknowledgments | p. 231 |
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