University Press of America
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978-0-7618-3847-0 • Paperback • October 2007 • $48.99 • (£38.00)
Norman L. Roth is a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of Queen's University Kingston in Ontario. He has worked in both the Federal and municipal levels of government, and has an ongoing and instructive career in the transportation technology industry, which led to commercially significant U.S. patents in "all-weather" control systems for Diesel power plants.
Part 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
Explores 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)