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Author Czech, Brian, 1960-

Title Shoveling fuel for a runaway train : errant economists, shameful spenders, and a plan to stop them all / Brian Czech
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index
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Subject Economic development -- Economic aspects
Consumption (Economics)
Neoclassical school of economics.
Stagnation (Economics)
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.
Consumption (Economics)
Economic development -- Economic aspects
Neoclassical school of economics
Stagnation (Economics)
Wachstumspolitik
Kritik
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520925601
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