Shoveling fuel for a runaway train
Subtitle: errant economists, shameful spenders, and a plan to stop them all
By: Brian Czech
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780520225084; 9780520225145
Subjects: Kritik; Wachstumspolitik; Stagnation (Economics); Neoclassical school of economics; Economic development; Economic aspects; Consumption (Economics)
Description: "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. Yet growth remains a top priority of the public and polity. In this revolutionary manifesto, Czech knocks economic growth off the pedestal of American ideology.

Asking for nothing less than a fundamental change in public opinion, Czech makes a bold plea for castigating society's biggest spenders and sets the stage for the "steady state revolution.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: The runaway train -- -- 1.; title: Economic growth as a national goal -- -- 2.; title: What did Jack Kemp really say? -- -- 3.; title: What will they think of next, and why? -- -- 4.; title: Simon said -- -- 5.; title: Copernicus, are you out there? -- -- pt. 2.; title: Stopping the train -- -- 6.; title: The steady state revolution : precepts and terminology -- -- 7.; title: Relations with the liquidating class -- -- 8.; title: Relations with the steady state class -- -- 9.; title: Relations with the amorphic class -- -- 10.; title: Exemplary steady statism.