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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Tables, Figures, and Box
• Preface
• Why We Wrote This Book
• What We Mean By Abundance
• Redefining Economics
• Distinctive Features of This Book
• Three Parts of the Book
• Dedication and Acknowledgments
• I Abundance A Practical Guide
• 1 An Intellectual History of Abundance
• Putting Abundance in Context
• Adam Smith Plus Malthus, Ricardo, and Mill
• Karl Marx
• Thorstein Veblen Plus Paul Sweezy, Joseph Schumpeter, and John R. Commons
• John Maynard Keynes, Plus Stuart Chase, Clarence Ayres, Walt Rostow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Amartya Sen
• Three More Thinkers: R.H. Tawney, John A. Hobson, and Erich Zimmermann
• Differences Among These Abundance Economists
• Conclusion
• 2 The Meaning of Abundance
• Abundance and Technology
• Abundance and Equality
• Scarcity and Inequality
• The Importance of Policy
• The Importance of Abundance to the Study of Economics
• The Meaning of Equality
• The Institutional Approach to Policy
• Abundance Denied
• 3 Population and Abundance
• Population Is Not the Problem
• The Population Pessimists
• The Population Optimists
• Alternatives to Malthusian Pessimism and Smithian Optimism
• Demographic Uncertainty
• Some Reflections on the Fertility Rate: Is Population an Effect and the Economy a Cause?
• Conclusions
• A Digression on Measuring Demographic Rates
• 4 Resources and the Environment
• What Are Resources?
• Then What Is a Shortage?
• Limits to Growth
• Limiting Growth on Spaceship Earth?
• Global Warming
• Sustainable Development?
• The Environmental Kuznets Curve
• The Hollander Hypothesis
• II Inequality Why Abundance Escapes Us
• 5 Inequality
• Inequality: The Illness
• Inequality in the United States: One Potbelly and Two Tables
• Global Inequality
• 6 Classism
• Slavery
• Feudalism
• Capitalism and the Mixed Economy
• Minor Classes
• Farmers
• Management
• Bankers
• Classism and Unemployment
• 7 Nationalism
• The Direct and Indirect Costs of War and Military Expenditures
• The Costs of Limiting Worldwide Access to the Joint Stock of Knowledge
• World Output Is a Policy Choice
• 8 Sexism
• Sexism and the Space Age
• Stereotyping Women
• Violence and Abuse
• Job Discrimination
• Some Simple Arithmetic
• Who Keeps House and Raises the Children?
• 9 Racism
• Race Is a Social Fiction
• Racism Is Real and Costly
• The New Racism
• 10 A Summing Up
• Universal Employment: A Different Objective and Its Context
• Threads in the Tapestry of Social and Economic Inequality
• Faulty Social Valuation Processes: Emulation and Scapegoating
• Emulation
• Scapegoating
• The Neglect of Negative-Sum Games
• Conclusion: Empirical Challenges
• III Policies Promoting Abundance
• 11 Universal Employment
• Focus on Full Participation
• Getting the Price of Labor Right
• Universal Employment: A Policy to Achieve Abundance
• Suggestions for Stimulating the Economy
• Suggestions for Restraining Power
• Suggestions for Strengthening Political Resolve
• Suggestions for Facilitating Structural Change
• Suggestions for Globalizing Abundance
• Conclusion
• 12 Reflection and Conclusion
• Review of the Theme
• Review of the Chapters
• The Last Word: Veblen’s Game
• References
• Preface
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Index
• A
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• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
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• About the Authors