Table of Contents

Introduction: Is Sustainability a New Cultural Paradigm? The Three Cultures Approach Where We've Been--The Culture of Security A History of the Satiable Human Self The Neolithic Revolution and the Emergence of the Insatiable Self Where We Are--The Culture of the Insatiable Freedom Capitalism and the 16th Century: The Universalization of the Insatiable Self: Everyone SHOULD Be All They Can Be Marx, Mill, and Capitalism: Driven by Improvement From Being More to Having More: Today's Economy of Insatiable Improvers Where Should We Go--The Culture of Sustainability The Satiable Self: Zorba Meets Gandhi Conclusion: A Sustainable Economy or Postmodern Feudalism? Index

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About the Author

DOUG BROWN is Professor of Economics in the College of Business at Northern Arizona University. His areas of research focus on institutional economics, comparative economic systems, the globalization of capitalism, and human and environmental sustainability. His books include The Economic Status of Women Under Capitalism (1994) and Thorstein Veblen in the Twenty-first Century (1998). He is active in the Association for Institutional Economics and the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

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"If humans are going to have a future on this planet, a blaze of change has to sweep the earth in the next few decades--a change in the way people think about the world and our place in it. One of the sparks that is going to kindle this blaze is Doug Brown's Insatiable Is Not Substainable, a book that reaches deep into the mad recesses of our culture (while retaining a sense of humor and remaining delightfully readable)."-Daniel Quinn author of Ishmael