[A-List] Book announcement: Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train

["Michael Keaney" <michael.keaney@xxxxxx>]

> Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders,
> and a Plan to Stop Them All is now coming out in paperback, so I'm
> sending off one last round of announcements (though I reserve the right
> to have a memory relapse if necessary).  I'm tired of acting like a
> salesman.  It's way ironic, given the message of Shoveling Fuel.  But
> defeating the politics of economic bloating is something that's going to
> take a lot of effort, perhaps even the political sacrifice of some who
> hate sounding like salesmen.
>
> So for those who haven't heard of it, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train
> applies principles of ecology (especially trophic theory) and
> evolutionary biology to the workings of the human economy, concluding
> that there is a fundamental conflict between economic growth and
> ecological integrity.  It finds neoclassical economic growth theory to be
> fallacious, dangerous, and corrupted at the nexus of academia,
> corporatism, and government.  It explains why economic growth is such a
> primary, perennial, and bipartisan goal in the United States.  It also
> provides an overview of ecological economics, a new paradigm in economics
> that should be treasured for its ecologically savvy policy prescriptions.
>
> Part 2 of Shoveling lays out a plan for the Steady State Revolution.  It
> synthesizes theory from Darwin, Veblen, and Maslow, and reveals the
> 'liquidator syndrome' afflicting many Americans.  It identifies 3 classes
> based not upon the ownership of capital, but based upon level of
> consumption: the wantonly wasteful liquidating class, the responsible
> steady state class, and the observing amorphic class.
>
> Once the motives of the liquidators and the effects of their behavior are
> revealed to a majority of Americans, the steady state class will begin to
> castigate the liquidating class (assuming Americans care about their
> grandkids, which they claim to, very much).  Pursuant to Maslow's
> hierarchy of needs, a tremendous turning of the socioeconomic tables
> transpires.  A positive feedback process unfolds, resulting in
> 'trickle-down consumption' (sorry, supply siders) that leads toward the
> establishment of a steady state economy.  Because the Steady State
> Revolution is based upon consumption and not upon the ownership of the
> means of production, it will come to fruition in a capitalist democracy.
>
> The new paperback edition of Fuel is $17 (probably less at Amazon).  You
> can learn more about the Steady State Revolution, Shoveling Fuel, and
> also my related video production at www.steadystate.org
>
>
> Brian Czech
> Arlington, VA
> USA
> www.steadystate.org
>