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9780520225145

Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520225145

  • ISBN10:

    0520225147

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

A conservation biologist with a background in political science explains in lay terms how our reverence for economic growth blinds us to the environmental problems caused by truly big spending, and how a steady-state economy can work for us and posterity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: A Wilderness Trail to an Economic Tale 1(16)
PART ONE ∼ THE RUNAWAY TRAIN
Economic Growth as a National Goal
17(10)
What Did Jack Kemp Really Say?
27(17)
What Will They Think of Next, and Why?
44(18)
Simon Said
62(16)
Copernicus, Are You Out There?
78(31)
PART TWO ∼ STOPPING THE TRAIN
The Steady State Revolution: Precepts and Terminology
109(14)
Relations with the Liquidating Class
123(24)
Relations with the Steady State Class
147(11)
Relations with the Amorphic Class
158(5)
Exemplary Steady Statism
163(14)
Conclusion: Laying New Tracks 177(6)
References 183(14)
Index 197

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