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Reading List and Links

This is a list of books, web pages and such that are relevant to Technocracy's analysis or provides some other useful background information. Note that none of the solutions presented by any of these sources (that I have seen) addresses the underlying problems which Technocracy does (check out any of our literature for further information).

These books are not necessarily endorsed by Technocracy (in some cases, definitely not), but are listed here due to my personal opinions.

I have categorized everything as follows:

• Fictional Works
• Science
• Ecology and Resources
• Price System Rules of the Game
• The Nature of the Human Animal
• Unsorted Items

Fictional Works

• Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. While this book predates Technocracy by several decades, it does echo some of the same ideas. Howard Scott has some comments about this book in the pamphlet History and Purpose of Technocracy
• Life in a Technocracy -- What It Might Be Like by Harold Loeb. Loeb was the leader of an early Technocracy group, the Continental Comittee on Technocracy.
• ``This Is It!'' Our Bountiful America By O. F. Brusha. The author was a long-time Technocrat in the Los Angeles area. It is quite difficult to find.
• The Plot to Win the White House and How It Succeeded and Walden Three by Jack Catran
• Castaways of Plenty By Willard E. Hawkins (1935)
• Walden Two by B. F. Skinner

Science

• The Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark By Carl Sagan.
• Dynamic Modelling By Bruce Hannon & Ruth Matthias. Springer-Verlag 1994 (with Stella II Software, which was used to produce the models in Beyond The Limits (q.v.))
• Reality Rules: I & II, Picturing the World in Mathematics By John L. Casti., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1992
• Life Power Stream -- a scientifically based indicator of the state of life on our planet.
• James Randi Educational Foundation
• Science For Peace

Ecology and Resources

• The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows, et. al. and the more recent follow-up Beyond the Limits by Donella Meadows, and similar et. al. Here is a USENET article about the book. The authors' group Institute for Policy and Social Science Research is now online!
• Worldwatch Institute
• Energy Basis For Man And Nature by Howard and Elisabeth Odum
• Communications for a Sustainable Future
• Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb
• United Nations Population Information Network
• The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
• Designing A Sustainable Future from In Context #35.
• The Full Costs of the Car, a collection of articles about the true costs of our automotive based culture.
• Central European Environmental Data Request Facility -- Lots of information and mailing list archives.

Price System Rules of the Game

• Ending Corporate Governance -- a wealth of information and links about the true history and nature of corporations.
• Corporate Watch provides a wealth of timely information about corporation misdeeds.
• The Engineers and the Price System, The Theory of the Leisure Class (A section of this book, Industrial Exemption and Conservatism, is available online) The Theory of Business Enterprise by Thorstein Veblen. collection of Veblen's books and papers are online. Also, there is a page about Veblen's Intellectual Legacy.
• Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt By Frederick Soddy
• The various works of Noam Chomsky's
• America: What Went Wrong? by Donald Bartlett and James Steele
• Debt Money, ancient meme -- Lots of information and links about the problems of money.
• Transaction Net: Community Currency Systems, links to lots of information about various monetary systems.
• Alternative Economics
• Steady-State Economics, 2e by H. E. Daly

The Nature of the Human Animal

• No Contest: The Case Against Competition By Alfie Kohn. Here is a review of it. He is also author of The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life and Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
• New World, New Mind by Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich
• The Axemaker's Gift by James Burke and Robert Ornstein
• Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? by Jack Catran
• Beyond Freedom and Dignity and other books By B. F. Skinner

Unsorted Items

• The End of Work By Jeremy Rifkin.
• The Venus Project
• Center for Utopian/Dystopian Studies
• Corporations Ate My Cat Home Page
• The Turning Point By Fritjof Capra. Here's a review
• FutureWork Mailing list
• Up-Wing
• The various works of R. Buckminster Fuller
• Millennium Institute
• Institute for Global Communications
• World Transformation -- Tons of information and links on a wide variety of topics all oriented towards making the world a better place.