Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train
Subtitle: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkley and Los Angeles, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780520225084
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Stagnation (Economics); Economic Development; Consumer Economics (General); Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Science/Mathematics; USA; Economic aspects; Development - Economic Development; Nature / General; Environmental Economics; Sustainable development; Nature; Natural Resources; Environmental Conservation & Protection; Consumer Behavior - General; Consumption (Economics); Neoclassical school of economi; Neoclassical school of economics
First sentence: "We should double the rate of growth, and we should double the size of the American economy!" hailed candidate Jack Kemp during the vice presidential debate of October 9, 1996.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: Prologue: A Wilderness Trail to an Economic Tale
pagenum: 1; title: PART ONE ~ THE RUNAWAY TRAIN; label: 1.
pagenum: 17
title: Economic Growth as a National Goal; label: 2.
pagenum: 27
title: What Did Jack Kemp Really Say?; label: 3.
pagenum: 44
title: What Will They Think of Next, and Why?; label: 4.
pagenum: 62
title: Simon Said; label: 5.
pagenum: 78
title: Copernicus, Are You Out There?; title: PART TWO ~ STOPPING THE TRAIN; label: 6.
pagenum: 109
title: The Steady State Revolution: Precepts and Terminology; label: 7.
pagenum: 123
title: Relations with the Liquidating Class; label: 8.
pagenum: 147
title: Relations with the Steady State Class; label: 9.
pagenum: 158
title: Relations with the Amorphic Class; label: 10.
pagenum: 163
title: Exemplary Steady Statism; title: Conclusion: Laying New Tracks
pagenum: 177; title: References
pagenum: 183; title: Index
pagenum: 197