@ Copyright 1997 by Anatole Beck. All rights reserved.





Preface

Chapters

  1. The inheritance
  2. The magicians
  3. Bert's option
  4. The chip
  5. Imaginary numbers
  6. The golden eggs
  7. Externalities
  8. The resource
  9. The paradox
  10. Paying for college
  11. Paying for pre-school
  12. Higher education
  13. Filling from the top
  14. Socialism
  15. Free lunch
  16. Sharing
  17. Intellectual property
  18. Information
  19. Unemployment
  20. Greed
  21. Free trade
  22. Economists
  23. Tuberculosis
  24. Health
  25. Waste
  26. The common
  27. Amateurs and professionals
  28. The dark side of the force
  29. The Luddites
  30. Saving the Earth
  31. Progress
  32. Risk
  33. The means test
  34. College
  35. Pre-school
  36. National net worth
  37. Investment
  38. The People's share
  39. Rentiers
  40. White heat
  41. The courtiers
  42. Taxes
  43. Cratchit
  44. Making nice
  45. A call to duty
  46. Knowledge is wealth

Appendices

    A The Technological Society (1971)
    B The Iron Law of Wages
    C The wretched of the Earth