Originally published: New York : Berkley Pub. Corp., 1978.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1 The End of Economics 9 -- Chapter 1 Recycling Our Culture 11 -- Chapter 2 The Exhaustion of Economic Logic 27 -- Chapter 3 The Finite Pie: The Limits of Traditional Economics in Making Resource Decisions 34 -- Chapter 4 Sharing the Resource Pie 63 -- Chapter 5 The Entropy State 83 -- Chapter 6 Let Them Eat Growth 93 -- Chapter 7 Japan: Industrialism's Bellweather 106 -- Chapter 8 The Great Economic Transition 113 -- Chapter 9 Inflation: The View from Beyond Economics 137 -- Chapter 10 A Farewell to the Corporate State 153 -- Chapter 11 Constraints Affecting the Future of a Resource-Intensive Industry: Packaging 169 -- Chapter 12 Autopsying the Golden Goose 193 -- Part 2 Creating Alternative Futures 223 -- Chapter 13 Coping with Organizational Future Shock 225 -- Chapter 14 Creative Social Conflict: New Approaches to Social Mediation 237 -- Chapter 15 Democratizing Media 269 -- Chapter 16 Information and the New Movements for Citizen Participation 277 -- Chapter 17 Forcing the Hand of the De-Regulators 297 -- Chapter 18 Awakening from the Technological Trance 303 -- Chapter 19 Technology Assessment 327 -- Chapter 20 The Decline of Jonesism 339 -- Chapter 21 Citizen Movements for Greater Global Equity 351 -- Chapter 22 Pluralistic Futurism 371 -- Chapter 23 The Emerging "Counter-Economy" 381