Kimball KRAMER
Gérald LAFLEUR
WHO'S WHO
Joel Jay KASSIOLA is professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Publications: The Death of Industrialized Civilization: The Limits to Economic Growth and the Repoliticization of Advanced Industrial Society; contents: Part 1: Advanced Industrial society in Crisis: Experiencing the Consequences of Economic Growth Addiction 1) The Contemporary Industrial Crisis and the Limits-to-Growth Controversy 2) The Death of Industrial Illusions Part II: Modern Economics as the Reductionism of Politics 3) The Modern Rise of Economics and the Demise of Politics 4) Industrial Economic Reductionism: Depoliticization through the Addiction to Unlimited Growth 5) Liberalism and the Economic Reductionism of Politics 6) The Concept of "Relative Wealth": A Social limit to Growth that Destroys the Addiction to Growth and Spurs Repoliticization Part III: The Values of Industrialism: Unlimited Competitive Materialism and the Normative Limits to Growth 7) Beyond the Biophysical Limits to Growth: Assessing Industrial Values 8) Materialism and Modern Political Philosophy Part IV: Transindustrial Values: Replacing the Addiction to Unlimited Free Economic Growth with Nonmaterialism, Noncompetition, Participatory Democracy and Community 9) Social Transformation into a Transindustrial Community 10) Conclusion: Towards a New Transindustrial Society.