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Books

• Ethics: What We Still Know After a Skeptical Age: This book defends classical natural ethics and shows that its vision of the good life becomes more relevant than ever as we move beyond the age of economic growth.

• The Politics of Simple Living: Our political thinking has not caught up with the unprecedented economic change that happened in America during the twentieth century, the change from a scarcity economy to a surplus economy. This book, published by the Preservation Institute, decribes a new politics of simple living that could help solve environmental problems such as global warming, and could offer a vision of a better future.

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism: Modernist architecture represents the status quo. This book decribes the sort of architecture that represents the changes needed in a modern, technological society.

Web Sites

• Removing Freeways - Restoring Cities: Histories of all the freeway removals that have occured in the United States.

• Preservation Institute Blog: Shorter topical pieces about modernism, technology, and growth.

  Policy Studies

• The End of Economic Growth: This important study shows that we are reaching the point where growth no longer improves our well being. [PDF format]

• Chemicals or Choices: Mental-health care advocates do not understand that they are dealing with the essence of what it means to be human. [PDF format]

• From Progressive to Preservationist: Instead of the old political spectrum ranging from progressive to conservative, we need a new spectrum ranging from preservationist to modernist. [PDF format]

• Slow Is Beautiful: This study argues that the best way to reclaim our cities is to limit speed. [PDF format]

• Appropriate Health Insurance: The left has criticized high-technology medical care. This study criticizes high-technology health insurance. [PDF format]

  White Papers

• Compulsory Consumption: This four-page White Paper looks at the "compulsory consumption fallacy," the common idea that we need economic growth, whether or not we want the products, in order to create jobs and avoid unemployment.[PDF format]

• The Fallacy that Capitalism Requires Growth: This four-page White Paper shows why it is not true that capitalism requires growth, as some belated Marxists still claim. [PDF format]

• Work Time and Global Warming: This four-page White Paper shows that allowing a choice of shorter work hours is a key to stabilizing world climate. [PDF format]

• A Carbon Tax Shift: This four-page White Paper shows that a carbon tax is the most effective way of controlling global warming and would be politically feasible if the revenues were used to lower the income tax.. [PDF format]

• Choice of Technology: This four-page White Paper outlines four criteria for choosing technology, to get useless and destructive technologies out of our way. [PDF format]

• After Oil Production Peaks: This four-page White Paper describes the choice that we will face, in this decade or the next, when world oil production peaks. [PDF format]

• Choice of Work Hours: This four-page White Paper summarizes the case for letting employees choose shorter work hours. [PDF format]

• The Limits of Sprawl: This four-page White Paper shows that, if suburban sprawl continues at current rates, it soon will cover a large fraction of America's total land. [PDF format]

• The Parable of Unemployment: This four-page White Paper tells a parable about how an American economist solves the problem of unemployment in a remote farming community - and about a farmer who has more common sense. [PDF format]