Shoveling fuel for a runaway train : errant economists, shameful spenders, and a plan to stop them all /

Americans have been conditioned to appreciate, cheer, and serve economic growth. Brian Czech argues that, while economic growth was a good thing for much of American history, somewhere along the way it turned bad, depleting resources, polluting the environment, and threatening posterity.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Czech, Brian, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Economic development > Economic aspects.
Consumption (Economics)
Neoclassical school of economics.
Stagnation (Economics)
Développement économique > Aspect économique.
École néoclassique d'économie politique.
Stagnation (Économie politique)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Wachstumspolitik
Kritik
USA.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The runaway train
  • 1. Economic growth as a national goal
  • 2. What did Jack Kemp really say?
  • 3. What will they think of next, and why?
  • 4. Simon said
  • 5. Copernicus, are you out there?
  • pt. 2. Stopping the train
  • 6. The steady state revolution : precepts and terminology
  • 7. Relations with the liquidating class
  • 8. Relations with the steady state class
  • 9. Relations with the amorphic class
  • 10. Exemplary steady statism.

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