Protestantism, Capitalism and Nature in America
Author: Mark Stoll
Why does the United States have the world's largest and most powerful environmentalist movement? It is a curious fact of American history that the people who dominated the early, formative years of both capitalism and environmentalism grew up with the same cultural and religious values.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Introduction: The Lumbermen of Eden | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Beauty and Wonder, Dominion and Stewardship | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | Capitalists and Militants, Rationalists and Ascetics | 29 |
| Ch. 3 | God, Nature, and the Puritans | 55 |
| Ch. 4 | Nature's God in the Age of Reason | 77 |
| Ch. 5 | Conquest and Contemplation | 99 |
| Ch. 6 | Steam and Steel and Christian Civilization | 125 |
| Ch. 7 | Progressive Gospels of Nature | 141 |
| Ch. 8 | The Twentieth Century | 171 |
| Notes | 199 | |
| Bibliography | 241 | |
| Index | 267 |
High-Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives
Author: Robert E E Klitgaard
Fixing problems in the federal goverment.
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