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

Author
Czech, Brian, 1960-
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
Copyright Date
©2000
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations
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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.
Summary
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.
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9780520925601 (electronic bk.)
0520925602 (electronic bk.)
159734897X
9781597348973
9780520225084
0520225082
9780520225145
0520225147
0585441383
9780585441382
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
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