Anti-trust laws, 82-84, 93, 124
Ariely, Dan, 22-23
Ayres, Ian, 52-53
Bailouts, 79, 92-93, 125
BP (British Petroleum), 9
Brown, Lester, 3
Business cycles, 19, 89-90
Campaign finance reform, 40, 45, 49-53, 68, 117, 123
Carbon dioxide, xv, 62, 95, 101, 121, 124
Carbon emission tax, xv, 86
Carrying capacity, xviii, 31, 33, 122
Center for the Advancement of the
Steady State Economy (CASSE), 26, 109, 119, 137
CEO Pay, 74-76
Climate change, xi, xii, 3-7, 19, 29, 32-34, 57-65, 72, 76, 86, 102, 106, 115-117, 119, 121-127
Colander, Landreth, 19
Collapse, xiv, xviii, 3, 19, 31-34, 45, 69, 79, 97-98, 106, 111, 122
Constitutional democracy, 50
Countervailing power, xvii, 70-71, 78-83, 124, 127
Czech, Brian, 109-110
Daly, Herman E., x, 38
Day traders, 95-96
Debt, xiv, xvii, xix, 35, 37-39, 45, 90-91, 96-100, 108-112, 122
Dependency ratio, 35
Diamond, Jared, 32
Duchin, Moon, 54-55
Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy
(DICE), xvi, 58-60
Ecological limits, xii, xviii, 6-7, 102, 119
Economic growth, xi-xii, xiv, xvii-xix, 6, 12-22, 35, 37, 60, 82-83, 89-92, 95, 99-100, 103, 107, 111-112, 119, 122-123, 125-126, 129-135
Economic inequality, xii-xiii, xvi, xix, 6, 19, 33, 37, 86, 107, 109-110, 122, 126-127
Energy efficiency, 10-11, 17, 121
Energy intensity, xi, 10-11, 16-18, 59, 101, 121
Equality of opportunity, 68, 122
Export-Import Bank (EXIM), 79
Farley, Joshua, x
Federal Election Commission (FEC), 51-53
Federal Reserve System, 38-39, 79-80, 90, 96-100, 109, 111-112, 125
Fertility Rates, xiii-xiv, 34, 119, 122
Financial instability, xiv, xviii, 39, 45, 91, 99-100, 125
Financial Services Regulatory Relief
Act of 2006, 80, 94
Fiscal stimulus, 39
Fossil fuels, x-xii, xix-xx, 3, 6, 46, 50, 59, 64-65, 76-77, 80, 101, 117, 121, 125-126
Fractional reserve banking, xvii, 98-99
Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), 42, 104
Geoengineering, x
Gerrymandering, 50, 54-55, 123
Gini Coefficient, 21-26,110
Glass-Steagall Act, 94-95, 97-98
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), xixiii, 9-19, 37, 39-42, 45-46, 59, 65, 70, 93, 101-104, 121, 123, 129-135
Holdren, John, 57
Human and nature dynamics
(HANDY), 32-33, 69
Income inequality, 19, 22-24
Inequality-adjusted Human Development
Index (IHDI), 42
Inflation, 21, 38-40, 64, 72-74, 90, 96, 100, 108-109, 111-112
Inheritance Taxes, 67-69, 124
Isolated society, xiv, xviii, 32, 106, 122
Jackson, Tim, 102-103
Klein, Naomi, 3
Knoop, Todd A., 40, 89
Levitsky, Steven, 117
Liquidity, xvii, 39, 95, 97
Lobbyists, 56, 76
Logistic function, 13-14, 29, 60, 129-135
Mankiw-Romer-Weil Model, 15-16, 129-130
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, xv, 45- 46, 123
Mayer, Jane, 68
Minimum wage, 72-74, 86, 124
Monopolies, 81, 82, 93
Natural resources, 29, 80, 122
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), 119
Nordhaus, William, 59
Paris Agreement, 34, 57
Patents, 81-82, 84, 86, 124
Penn World Table, 9, 130, 132-133
Pickett, Kate, 26
Piketty, Thomas, 16
Political Action Committees (PACs), 40, 51, 53
Political Influence, 49-56
Population growth, xii-xiii, 14-15, 34, 45, 104-107, 119, 122
Prescription drug advertising, 78
Projection, xii, 11-20, 31, 60, 122, 130-132, 135
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), 41
Quantitative easing, xvii, 97, 99
Recession, xvii, xviii, 6, 38-40, 89-90, 97, 122-123, 125
Reich, Robert B., xvii, 73, 76, 86
Renewable energy sources, xii, 17-18, 59, 63, 102, 125
Representative democracy, 50
Retirement age, xix, 19, 37, 108-111
Revolving door, 55-56, 124
Ricardo, David, 85
Risk-taking, 94-95, 97, 125
Sanders, Berne, xix, 21, 53, 73-74
Scale, xviii, xix, 22, 46, 59, 62, 64, 77, 101-112, 119, 125-126
Scientific American, 27, 54, 74
Securities Exchange Commission, 75
Sigmoid function, 13
Solow, Bob, 14-15, 60, 129-130
Stiglitz, Joseph, 75, 94-95
Subsidies, 52, 64-65, 76-80, 124
Super PACs, 40, 51
Sustainable, xviii, xix, 32-33, 46, 80, 102-103, 106, 109, 119, 122, 125
Tax exemption, xvi, 67-69
The World Bank, 9, 133
Throughput, 101-103, 125
Tipping point, 4-5, 59, 62
Trade agreements, 84-87, 124
Trump, Donald, xix, 21, 86,115
Uncertainty, xi, xiii-xiv, 3-5, 31, 34, 59-60, 62, 64, 121-122
Universal Basic Income, 63, 71-72, 96, 124
Verhulst, Peirre Francois, 14
Voting, 50, 52-53, 115-119, 123
Wellbeing, 104
Wilkinson, Richard, 26
Worldview, xiv, xviii, 6-7, 121-122, 125-127
Zero-energy home, 17
Ziblatt, Daniel, 117