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Contents

List of Contributors xix
About the Editor xxi

1. Introduction
Woodrow W. Clark, II
References 8
Further Reading 9

2. The Green Industrial Revolution
Woodrow W. Clark, II
How Communities and Nations Move Ahead 13
What Is a Renewable Energy Power Source? 15
Deregulation Benefits: Myths About Economic Efficiency
as Conservation Is Needed Too 19
Better Investment Decisions 19
Politicized Priorities Excluded 20
The Issue of Deregulating Agile Energy Systems 22
Conclusion: Economic Development in an Agile Energy System 26
Appendix A: The Danish Case for the Green Industrial Revolution 28
Appendix B: E-mail Surveillance Data on ENRON 29
Appendix C: From Central Power Grid to Local Distributed
Power Systems 29
Appendix D: Smart Grid That Includes Local Distributed Power
and Renewable Energy Generation 30
References 30
Further Reading 31

3. Cross-Disciplinary Scientific Foundation for
Sustainability: Qualitative Economics
Michael Fast, Woodrow W. Clark, II
The Paradigm Shift: Economics as a Science 36
Subjectivism Paradigm: Lifeworld Perspective and Symbolic
Interactionism 40
Philosophy of Science 40
Phenomenology: The Tradition of the Lifeworld Perspective 41

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