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The book is set in 1999 (25 years in the future from 1974) and consists of diary entries and reports of journalist William Weston, who is the first American mainstream media reporter to investigate Ecotopia, a small country that broke away from the United States in 1980 following an economic collapse.
Though the book was speculative in nature, its author, Stevens was subsequently consulted on issues relating to the future of the planet's economic, ecological and energy systems. [7] The book was later referenced by Mark Hinshaw in a piece describing two potential futures, who cited Steven's term "Electronic Social Transformation".
Property rights are constructs in economics for determining how a resource or economic good is used and owned, [1] which have developed over ancient and modern history, from Abrahamic law to Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Terrans are also there, and the novel occurs some time in the future, according to an elaborate chronology worked out by science fiction author Ian Watson in 1975: "the baseline date of AD 2300 for The Dispossessed is taken from the description of Earth in that book (§11) as having passed through an ecological and social collapse with a ...
In his book Economics and the Public Purpose (1973) he proposed the extension of the planning system used in the industrial core of the economy to the wider market economy. He argued for a new socialism, with more steeply progressive taxes, public housing , medical care and transportation , public support of the arts and the conversion of some ...
Friedman's book Price Theory: A Provisional Text, originally based on lecture notes taken by David I. Fand and Warren J. Gustus in 1951–52. These notes were popular among graduate students and eventually prompted Friedman to work on their publication. The revised edition was prepared when Friedman resumed teaching price theory in the early 1970s.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan (German: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats) is an 1884 anthropological treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is partially based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgan's book Ancient Society (1877).
He is a long-time science fiction fan, and has written three novels. Harald (Baen Books, 2006) is set in an invented world drawn from European history. [17] Salamander (2011) and its sequel Brothers (2020) are fantasy. He has spoken in favor of a non-interventionist foreign policy. [18] [independent source needed]