Elegant Technology

Table of book's contents

Part One:
The People of Industrialism

Chapter One: The Hunter and the Farmer

• The Producer's World According to Veblen
• The Deindustrialization of America

Chapter Two: Marxism: the failed promise

Chapter Three: Are Producers a Class?

• Class Conflict
• Preservation of Archaic Traits
• The Danger of Preserved Predatory Traits

Chapter Four: The Theory of the Industrial Class
When Creativity Becomes Important!

• The Producer as an Artist
• Creativity and Producer Class History
• Skills, Procedures, and ValuesThe Art of Technology
• Great Artists Must Often Work for Predators
• Is "Producer" or "Predator" a Personality Type?
• Homeopathic Differences Between Predators and Producers
• Is Conflict Between Producers and Predators Inevitable?
• Value Confusion versus Value Clarity

Part Two:
The Economics of Industrialism

Chapter Five: The Economics of Predation

• The Myth of the Market
• The Economics of Predation
• The Myth of Value-Free Science

Chapter Six: Money!

• Preindustrial Assumptions
• The New Reality
• Industrial Monetary Policy
• Industrial usury
• N.U.P.
• NUP only applies to simple interest
• Severe 1970s-style inflation
• The Volcker rollback
• The damage to the economy when interest rates exceed NUP
• Never kill the customer
• Noneconomic damage caused by interest rates above NUP

Chapter Seven: Fordism

• The Fordist economic principles

Chapter eight: Tools!

• The Nature of Tools
• The Economics of Design
• Design as a Growth Factor
• Producer versus Predator Capital
• The Justification for Green Design

Chapter Nine: The Great Riverboat Gamble

• Military Keynesianism on the Ground
• The Selling of Catastrophe

Part Three:
The Industrial Environmental Solution

Chapter Ten: Do Producers Have a Plan?

• The promise
• Closing the Loop
• An end to the economics of waste

Chapter Eleven: Technological Elegance

• Elegant Technology
• The Rules of Industrial Elegance
• Elegant Waste Management
• Elegant Agriculture
• Elegant Medicine and Population Control
• Elegant Tools
• Elegant Energy Applications
• The Elegant Mix

Chapter Twelve: Building a Consensus For Action

• Building for the Future--Industrial Environmentalism as a Development Strategy
• Mega-projects
• Paying the costs

Chapter Thirteen: The Hurdles to Industrial Environmentalism

• Hurdles of Awareness:
• Information
• Education
  • Value Hurdles:
  • Capitulation to the Policies of Predation
  • The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
  • Guarding Against Predation
  • Militarism
  • Redeploying the Military
  • Political Hurdles:
  • The Need to Invent a Producer Politics
  • Economic Hurdles:
    Is Industrial Environmentalism Affordable?

   

Chapter Fourteen : The Populist Perspective

• The Cultural Manifestations of Populism
• Political Populism
• Will Neo-Populism Triumph?
• Supplemental Populism Reading List