Steven Stoll
1) The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
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Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But, when did people begin to believe that societies should-even that they must-expand in wealth indefinitely?
In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who pursued universal...
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A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation
Fifty-years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic was founded, was threatened. Steven Stoll's passionate and brilliantly argued book explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between "improvers," who...