Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Anthropology and Economics: A Review
Chapter 1: Anthropology and the Cosmology of Modern Economics
Chapter 2: Wants, Needs, and the Question of Surplus versus Wealth
Chapter 3: Complexity and Stability or Stagnation: Declining Returns and the Business Cycle
Chapter 4: Wealth, Consumption, Quality of Life & Standard of Living
Part II: Introduction to Hominid Economics
Chapter 6: Introduction
Chapter 7: Forest Fires, Origins, and Myths
Chapter 8: Traditional Peoples and Fire
Chapter 9: Climate and Fire, Assessing Time's Arrow and the Antiquity of Anthropogenic Fire
Chapter 10: Forest Management in Modern and Traditional Society
Chapter 11: The Degraded Environment and Homo Sapiens
Chapter 12: Co-evolutionary Processes & Environmental Exploitation
Chapter 13: Makeup and Nature of Forests: Fire-adapted Species vs 'Old Growth'
Chapter 14: Determining Fire History: Fire Scars, Fire Histories, and Thermal Alteration
Chapter 15: Insects, Biomass Reduction, and Pesticides
Chapter 16: Conclusion: Forests and the Future Man
Part III: Cycles of Growth & Collapse versus the Possibility of Sustainable Societies
Chapter 17: Introduction
Chapter 18: The Problem of Population & the Nature of Human Society
Chapter 19: Consumerism and Sustainability: Japan as an Example
Chapter 20: The Evolution of Modern Japan and its Transformation
Part IV: The Role of Ideology and Religious Precepts in the Containment and Change of Society: A Modernist View
Chapter 21: The Credit Crisis of 2008 to 201?
Chapter 22: Ideology and Religious Precepts and Motivations: Why People Work
Chapter 23: Fundamentalism versus Globalism
Part V: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author