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Book SynopsisIn Telos and Technos, Norman L. Roth breaks out of the strait-jacket of contemporary economic ''paradigms'' with a clearly presented systematic remedy for our current economic theory that does not work in the real world of economic truths and consequences. For the first time, the static assumptions that have leeched so much of the credibility out of the dominant neoclassical models are put in their place. Truly dynamic concepts of technological time, change in consumer tastes and their measurable impact on the natural environment that must sustain us, are integrated into an interactive system of economic thought. This economic analysis and solution asks: What are the causes of work? How do they explain the official statistics of employment, unemployment, and labor participation? The assumption that full employment equilibrium is the natural state towards which an economy gravitates is jettisoned in favor of a far more realistic explanation of how a society really creates jobs. Serious limitations are revealed about our conceit that modern complex economics can be forced into gyroscopic stability by simply pressing the right buttons marked interest rates and money-supply. Roth offers a vital and hopeful message to those who fear that modern economics has lost its way as a practical guide to modern society.
Trade ReviewExplores how telos- the goals and ends of economic activity- interacts with technos- the instinct of workmanship- in the feedback relationship of economic life in order to form the market. -- . * Journal of Economic Literature, March 2008 (Vol 45, No. 1) *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Telos and the Current Conception of the Standard of Life Chapter 4 Technos, Technological Time, or the Promethean Imperative Chapter 5 Macro-Economic Consequences – Quantity of Work, Employment, and Income Levels Chapter 6 Capital Chapter 7 A Summing Up: Implications for Further Consideration Part 8 Bibliography Part 9 About the Author
