Full Contents—Linear Order by Section

The ENL Framework

  1. Introduction
  2. Ethical Stance
  3. Technological Neutrality
  4. Analytical Scope
  5. Geographical Scope
  6. Economic Abstraction
  7. Output Life Cycle
  8. Marginal Analysis
  9. Graphs and Quantification

Consumption and Value

  1. Introduction
  2. Distribution and Consumption
  3. Brief History of Value
  4. Value and Cost are Human Measures
  5. ENL's Measurement Standard
  6. Developing a Health Unit
  7. Potential Value
  8. Effectual Value
  9. Satiation
  10. Output Losses
  11. Maldistribution of Final Outputs
  12. Long Pipeline to Effectual Value
  13. Consumption Efficiency and Distribution Efficiency
  14. Crowding in Consumption
  15. Deaths from Consumption
  16. Needs and Wants

Production and Cost

  1. Introduction
  2. Allocation and Production
  3. Brief History of Cost
  4. Opportunity Cost: the Great Deception
  5. Defining Production
  6. Input Cost and Forgone Health
  7. Labor Cost
  8. Worker Participation Rate
  9. Maldistribution of Labor
  10. Natural Cost
  11. Maldistribution of Wastes
  12. Crowding in Production
  13. Deaths from Production
  14. Value, Cost and the Output Life Cycle
  15. Allocation Efficiency
  16. Production Efficiency
  17. Ranking Production Facilities
  18. Defining Well-Being
  19. ENL's Approach to Value and Cost

Maximizing Gains

  1. Introduction
  2. Optimization
  3. Optimum Quantity for a Final Output: How Much Bread?
  4. Optimum Quantity for a Harmful Output: How Many Cigarettes?
  5. Optimum Quantity for an Intermediate Output: How Many Trucks?
  6. Optimum Quantity when Value is Zero: How Many Concerts?
  7. Optimum Scale for the Economy: What Level of Total Outputs?
  8. Long Run Optimization
  9. Aggregation and Equality
  10. Inequality
  11. Economic Efficiency

Environmental Limits

  1. Introduction
  2. Present and Future Humankind
  3. Environmental Budgets
  4. Budget Shares and Share Limits
  5. Ecological Limit—Single Output
  6. Ecological Limit—Economy
  7. Target Output Quantity
  8. Ecological Efficiency
  9. Target Flow Rates
  10. Flow Rate Patterns
  11. Natural Flows Synopsis
  12. Unique Aspects of Nonrenewables
  13. Sanctioned Wants

Population

  1. Introduction
  2. Are More People Better?
  3. Optimum Population Level
  4. Ecological Limit for Population
  5. Target Population Level

Labor Productivity

  1. Introduction
  2. Definition of Labor Productivity
  3. Technological Intensity
  4. Two Perspectives on Labor Productivity
  5. Economic Effects of Labor Productivity
  6. Optimizing Productivity
  7. Productivity for Intermediate Outputs
  8. Division of Labor
  9. Luddism Reconsidered

Trade

  1. Introduction
  2. Unique Aspects of Trade
  3. Transportation is Part of Production
  4. Why Consider Trade?
  5. Results of Trade
  6. Rationale for Trade
  7. Imports—Where to Get Potatoes?
  8. Exports—What to Do with Potatoes?
  9. Coercive Trade Relations
  10. Local Self Sufficiency

Reversing Overshoot

  1. Introduction
  2. Overshoot Model
  3. Shrinking Economies
  4. Four Approaches to Overshoot

Contractionary Economics

  1. Introduction
  2. Current Economic Thought
  3. Heterodox Economics
  4. Ecological Economics
  5. Evolution of Contractionary Economics
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