Full Contents—Linear Order by Section
The ENL Framework
- Introduction
- Ethical Stance
- Technological Neutrality
- Analytical Scope
- Geographical Scope
- Economic Abstraction
- Output Life Cycle
- Marginal Analysis
- Graphs and Quantification
Consumption and Value
- Introduction
- Distribution and Consumption
- Brief History of Value
- Value and Cost are Human Measures
- ENL's Measurement Standard
- Developing a Health Unit
- Potential Value
- Effectual Value
- Satiation
- Output Losses
- Maldistribution of Final Outputs
- Long Pipeline to Effectual Value
- Consumption Efficiency and Distribution Efficiency
- Crowding in Consumption
- Deaths from Consumption
- Needs and Wants
Production and Cost
- Introduction
- Allocation and Production
- Brief History of Cost
- Opportunity Cost: the Great Deception
- Defining Production
- Input Cost and Forgone Health
- Labor Cost
- Worker Participation Rate
- Maldistribution of Labor
- Natural Cost
- Maldistribution of Wastes
- Crowding in Production
- Deaths from Production
- Value, Cost and the Output Life Cycle
- Allocation Efficiency
- Production Efficiency
- Ranking Production Facilities
- Defining Well-Being
- ENL's Approach to Value and Cost
Maximizing Gains
- Introduction
- Optimization
- Optimum Quantity for a Final Output: How Much Bread?
- Optimum Quantity for a Harmful Output: How Many Cigarettes?
- Optimum Quantity for an Intermediate Output: How Many Trucks?
- Optimum Quantity when Value is Zero: How Many Concerts?
- Optimum Scale for the Economy: What Level of Total Outputs?
- Long Run Optimization
- Aggregation and Equality
- Inequality
- Economic Efficiency
Environmental Limits
- Introduction
- Present and Future Humankind
- Environmental Budgets
- Budget Shares and Share Limits
- Ecological Limit—Single Output
- Ecological Limit—Economy
- Target Output Quantity
- Ecological Efficiency
- Target Flow Rates
- Flow Rate Patterns
- Natural Flows Synopsis
- Unique Aspects of Nonrenewables
- Sanctioned Wants
Population
- Introduction
- Are More People Better?
- Optimum Population Level
- Ecological Limit for Population
- Target Population Level
Labor Productivity
- Introduction
- Definition of Labor Productivity
- Technological Intensity
- Two Perspectives on Labor Productivity
- Economic Effects of Labor Productivity
- Optimizing Productivity
- Productivity for Intermediate Outputs
- Division of Labor
- Luddism Reconsidered
Trade
- Introduction
- Unique Aspects of Trade
- Transportation is Part of Production
- Why Consider Trade?
- Results of Trade
- Rationale for Trade
- Imports—Where to Get Potatoes?
- Exports—What to Do with Potatoes?
- Coercive Trade Relations
- Local Self Sufficiency
Reversing Overshoot
Contractionary Economics