Economic Abundance

Höfundar: William M. Dugger; James T. Peach (Útgáfa: 1)
Economic Abundance

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Most principles of economics texts are predicated narrowly on the concept of scarcity as a fundamental force, but that is only one aspect of economics. This supplemental text for basic and intermediate level undergraduates provides a serious discussion of the concept of abundance - what it means, how we can move toward it, and what keeps us from doing so. The authors first outline the development of the concept of abundance and its meaning with discussions of the roles of population, resources, and the environment.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781317472667
Print ISBN
9780765623416
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
William M. Dugger; James T. Peach
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2015-01-28
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • 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
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Z
  • About the Authors