Seeking Co-author for Online Survey Text

[Kit Taylor <kitaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For some years I have been slowly working on a heterodox online textbook for
the non-major survey course in economics, tentatively titled "Human Society
and the Global Economy,"

In order to move the project ahead a bit faster than its present crawl,  I
am seeking a compatible co-author.

The text is at   http://online.bcc.ctc.edu/econ100/ksttext/index.htm

The table of contents indicates which chapters (or partial chapters) are
currently available.  Some of the available chapters still need updating,
restructuring, expansion, and updating.  Chapter 14 is the closest to being
in finished format and should give a prospective co-author a good idea of
what I am trying to accomplish in the online media -- some of the margin
notes are direct links to current online sources (such as the World
Development Report);  The term list at the end of the chapter is linked back
to where each term is first used;  I've divided the chapter into separate
segments to speed up the loading (all our students don't have broadband yet)
and included margin icons to open the photos.  I've also tried to keep the
source notation as unobtrusive as possible.

I would like to find a co-author who would agree with me on the following:

Keep it free:  Keep the book available online without collecting any fees.
Author and co-author have to be content to get our rewards from knowing we
have produced something useful.

Perspective:  Institutionalist/Post-Keynesian -- The chapters on "The
Keynesian Revolution" and "Capitalism's Crises and  Critics"  best reveal my
perspective.

Organization:  Historical, with inclusion of much history of economics as
well (explained in Chapter 1)

Use of Internet:  I hope to exploit the capabilities of the Internet with
lots of external links -- for example, linking the names of economists to
the history of thought site, links to central banks, World Development
Report, etc.  I decided not to let AtomicDog "publish" the text when their
editor told me to severely restrict the number of external links (apparently
they do not want students to leave their site easily).

Mechanical Stuff:  I want to keep the formal mechanical stuff to a minimum
and in appendices (supply and demand curves;  Keynesian cross).  Diagrams in
the main part of the text will be mostly interactive flow-type charts like
the one toward the end of Chapter 1.

Continuation:  I may be retiring from Bellevue Community College in 6 or 7
years -- I would like to find a co-author younger than myself who would be
interested in eventually taking full responsibility for the textbook.

Enjoys teaching the survey course -- in many ways the survey course is a
greater responsibility than the principles courses that the econ and
business majors take, as this may be the ONLY economics course the non-major
takes.

The co-author would not initially need be at home in HTML, JavaScript, etc.,
as I can easily do the web formatting for segments the co-author writes.

Kit Sims Taylor

Email:

College:  kitaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx
Appletree Cove Graphics (Photography):  kst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Home:  chktaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Websites --

Kit Sims Taylor,  Bellevue Community College, Economics Site
http://online.bcc.ctc.edu/econ/kst/Kstpage.htm

Kit Sims Taylor, Photography
http://appletreecovegraphics.com/