Unholy Trinity Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	Complexity, self-organization, and political economy	1
	Introduction	1
	What is a complex system?	1
	The Classical political economic vision	3
	Self-organization and equilibrium	11
	From Malthus to Darwin to Kauffman	17
	Classical themes	20
	Humanity's struggle to control its fate	31
2	Innovative capitalism and the distribution of income	32
	The puzzle of distribution	35
	The Goodwin model	38
	The puzzle of productivity change	40
	Innovation, distribution, and the profit rate	42
	The Goodwin-Kennedy model: induced technical change	43
	Foundations of induced technical change theory	46
	The labor theory of value	49
	A way out of the capital theory dilemma?	51
	Self-organization in economic history	53
3	Can political economy save us from global warming?	55
	The welfare economics of global warming	56
	Dynamic and static substitution	61
	Accumulation with a land constraint	62
	Closed and open loops	69
	Paths to sustainability	69
	Economic policy and self-organizing complexity	74
4	The new economy and the population of the Earth	75
	Smith and Malthus	76
	Stable and unstable demographic equilibria	78
	Evidence	81
	Population, innovation, and sustainability	84
	Distribution	85
	Challenges and pitfalls	86
	Methods and conclusions	88
5	Concluding observations	89
	Bibliography	92
	Index	95