Table of Contents

chapterOne The Power and Mystique of Economics: Sharing the Power, Eliminating the Magic; chapterTwo The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits: Survival Needs, Food, and Health Care; chapterThree The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits, Continued: Clothing, Housing, and Stone Age Economics; chapterFour The Economic Pursuit of Quality in a Noncommercial Setting; chapterFive Profaning the Sacred? Economic Valuation of the Natural Environment; chapterSix Beauty and the Beast: Quantitative Evidence on the Economic Importance of Environmental Quality; chapterSeven The Economic Base: Distracting Vision, Distorting Reality; chapterEight Economic Growth and Local Economic Well-Being; chapterNine The Self-Defeating Strategies of Quantitative Growth; chapterTen The Local Pursuit of Quality: A “Can’t-Lose” Economic-Development Strategy; chapterEleven Grander Visions, Grander Problems;