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Publications

Books

• The Politics of Simple Living: Our political thinking has not caught up with the unprecedented economic change that happened in America during the twentieth century, the change from a scarcity economy to a surplus economy. This book, published by the Preservation Institute, decribes a new politics of simple living that could help solve environmental problems such as global warming, and could offer a vision of a better future.

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism: Modernist architecture represents the status quo. This book decribes the sort of architecture that represents the changes needed in a modern, technological society.

• The End of Economic Growth: This important study shows that we are reaching the point where growth no longer improves our well being.

Web Sites

• Removing Freeways - Restoring Cities: Histories of all the freeway removals that have occured in the United States.

• Preservation Institute Blog: Shorter topical pieces about modernism, technology, and growth.

  Policy Studies

• Chemicals or Choices: Mental-health care advocates do not understand that they are dealing with the essence of what it means to be human. [PDF format]

• From Progressive to Preservationist: Instead of the old political spectrum ranging from progressive to conservative, we need a new spectrum ranging from preservationist to modernist. [PDF format]

• Slow Is Beautiful: This study argues that the best way to reclaim our cities is to limit speed. [PDF format]

• Appropriate Health Insurance: The left has criticized high-technology medical care. This study criticizes high-technology health insurance. [PDF format]

  White Papers

• Work Time and Global Warming: This four-page White Paper shows that allowing a choice of shorter work hours is a key to stabilizing world climate. [PDF format]

• A Carbon Tax Shift: This four-page White Paper shows that a carbon tax is the most effective way of controlling global warming and would be politically feasible if the revenues were used to lower the income tax.. [PDF format]

• Choice of Technology: This four-page White Paper outlines four criteria for choosing technology, to get useless and destructive technologies out of our way. [PDF format]

• After Oil Production Peaks: This four-page White Paper describes the choice that we will face, in this decade or the next, when world oil production peaks. [PDF format]

• Choice of Work Hours: This four-page White Paper summarizes the case for letting employees choose shorter work hours. [PDF format]

• The Limits of Sprawl: This four-page White Paper shows that, if suburban sprawl continues at current rates, it soon will cover a large fraction of America's total land. [PDF format]

• The Parable of Unemployment: This four-page White Paper tells a parable about how an American economist solves the problem of unemployment in a remote farming community - and about a farmer who has more common sense. [PDF format]