Contents

Preface EPILOGUE TO SCARCITY

Chapter I THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY?

The Inadequacy of Conventional Economics

Chapter II THE PARADOX OF POVERTY AMIDST PLENTY

Chapter III HOW WE DISTRIBUTE WEALTH

Pressures for Full Employment
Pressures for Unemployment
Handcraftsmanship and Personal Services.
Women's Liberation
The Importance of Our Cultural Heritage

Chapter IV THE THREAT OF PRODUCTIVITY.

Productivity and the Standard of Living . .
The Threat to Jobs
Automation and Power: Economic and Political
The Concentration of Ownership

Chapter V THE ADVENT OF SUPER-AUTOMATION

Computer-Aided Manufacturing.
Computers and Robots

Chapter VI AN ALTERNATIVE

The Employee Society
The National Mutual Fund
The Amount of NMF Investment
NMF Dividends
The Political Power of the NMF
A Better Selection Process
Additional Checks and Balances
The NMF and Free Enterprise
Incentives for Diversity .

Chapter VII PEOPLES' CAPITALISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL

Financial Security and Personal Freedom
The NMF and Individual Incentive
The Effect on Political Freedom
A Bigger Pie with Bigger Slices

Chapter VIII THE QUEST FOR STABLE PRICES

Productivity and Prices
A Different Strategy
Investment-Payback Delay
Monetary Policy
Tax Policy
Budgetary Policy
Price Guidelines and/or Controls.
Time for a Change

Chapter IX A FORMULA FOR PRICE STABILITY

Part 1: Dealing with Excess Demand
Part 2: Dealing with Insufficient Demand
Administration of the Demand Regulation Policy
The DRP and NMF Working Together

Chapter X A DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A Role for the Federal Government.
Science at the Cabinet Level

Chapter XI PEOPLES' CAPITALISM IN A FINITE WORLD

The NMF and Limits to Growth
An Alternative to Urbanization
Continued Growth and the Environment
The NMF and International Relations
The NMF and Overpopulation

Chapter XII FROM THROUGHPUT TO STOREHOUSE ECONOMICS

The NMF and Storehouse Economics

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