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Intro; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: On the Problem of Scale; References; Chapter 2: Economic Cubism, Economic Surrealism, and Scale Relativity; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Scale Invariance; 2.3 Cubism and Scale Invariance; 2.4 Surrealism and Scale Invariance; 2.5 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: Scale Invariance in Constitutional Political Economy (CPE); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 CPE's Scale Invariance; 3.3 CPE's Dichotomies; 3.3.1 The Analogy Between Markets and Politics; 3.3.2 CPE and Complexity; 3.3.3 CPE and Methodological Individualism
3.3.4 Modalities of Small-Scale Organization3.3.4.1 Rationality; 3.3.4.2 Risk Aversion and Privacy; 3.3.4.3 The Contractarian Approach and the Origin of the State; 3.3.4.4 Economies of Scale and Political Group Size; 3.3.4.5 Power Relations and Welfare Economics; 3.3.5 Modalities of Large-Scale Organization; 3.3.5.1 Political Economy and the National Scale; 3.3.5.2 The State as a Machine; 3.3.5.3 Methodological Individualism; 3.3.5.4 Homo Economicus; 3.4 Examples of CPE's Scale Invariance; 3.5 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4: The Tower of Babel Syndrome; 4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Emergence of the Ecological Crisis4.3 Locality in the Responses to the Ecological Crisis; 4.3.1 The Historical Response; 4.3.2 The Modern Response; 4.3.3 Localism and the Earth Charter; 4.3.3.1 The Preamble; 4.3.3.2 The Principles; 4.3.3.3 The Way Forward; 4.3.3.4 How the Modern Response Marginalized Localism: The Fiction of 'Indigenous Peoples'; 4.3.4 How the Modern Response Marginalized Localism: The 'Natural Rights' Paradigm; 4.3.5 The 'Complexity Imperative' Illusion; 4.3.6 Summary; 4.4 Concluding Remarks; References
Chapter 5: A Décollage of Kropotkin, Mumford, Boulding, Bookchin, and Schumacher5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Evolution, Organisms, and Hobbes; 5.3 Morphology, Structure, and Scale; 5.4 Civilization, Capitalism, and the Nation-State; 5.5 The Resurrection of City Confederations; 5.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 6: The Morphogenetic Foundations of Economic Change; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 An Analogy with Organisms and Complexity; 6.3 Economic Change as Morphogenesis; 6.4 A 'Histopathology' of Economic Change; 6.5 Democracy as Evolutionary Fitness
6.5.1 Issues with Defining the Concepts of Democracy and Size6.5.2 Democracy and Output Proxies; 6.5.3 Democracy as Evolutionary Fitness; 6.5.4 Summary; 6.6 A General Theory of Morphogenesis; 6.6.1 Definitions; 6.6.2 Propositions; 6.7 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 7: The Principle of Subsidiarity; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A Brief Introduction to the Principle of Subsidiarity; 7.2.1 Subsidiarity's Economic and Ethical Foundations; 7.2.2 Subprinciples of Subsidiarity; 7.2.3 Subsidiarity as Self-Organization; 7.2.4 Subsidiarity and the Prisoner's Dilemma
3.3.4 Modalities of Small-Scale Organization3.3.4.1 Rationality; 3.3.4.2 Risk Aversion and Privacy; 3.3.4.3 The Contractarian Approach and the Origin of the State; 3.3.4.4 Economies of Scale and Political Group Size; 3.3.4.5 Power Relations and Welfare Economics; 3.3.5 Modalities of Large-Scale Organization; 3.3.5.1 Political Economy and the National Scale; 3.3.5.2 The State as a Machine; 3.3.5.3 Methodological Individualism; 3.3.5.4 Homo Economicus; 3.4 Examples of CPE's Scale Invariance; 3.5 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4: The Tower of Babel Syndrome; 4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Emergence of the Ecological Crisis4.3 Locality in the Responses to the Ecological Crisis; 4.3.1 The Historical Response; 4.3.2 The Modern Response; 4.3.3 Localism and the Earth Charter; 4.3.3.1 The Preamble; 4.3.3.2 The Principles; 4.3.3.3 The Way Forward; 4.3.3.4 How the Modern Response Marginalized Localism: The Fiction of 'Indigenous Peoples'; 4.3.4 How the Modern Response Marginalized Localism: The 'Natural Rights' Paradigm; 4.3.5 The 'Complexity Imperative' Illusion; 4.3.6 Summary; 4.4 Concluding Remarks; References
Chapter 5: A Décollage of Kropotkin, Mumford, Boulding, Bookchin, and Schumacher5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Evolution, Organisms, and Hobbes; 5.3 Morphology, Structure, and Scale; 5.4 Civilization, Capitalism, and the Nation-State; 5.5 The Resurrection of City Confederations; 5.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 6: The Morphogenetic Foundations of Economic Change; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 An Analogy with Organisms and Complexity; 6.3 Economic Change as Morphogenesis; 6.4 A 'Histopathology' of Economic Change; 6.5 Democracy as Evolutionary Fitness
6.5.1 Issues with Defining the Concepts of Democracy and Size6.5.2 Democracy and Output Proxies; 6.5.3 Democracy as Evolutionary Fitness; 6.5.4 Summary; 6.6 A General Theory of Morphogenesis; 6.6.1 Definitions; 6.6.2 Propositions; 6.7 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 7: The Principle of Subsidiarity; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A Brief Introduction to the Principle of Subsidiarity; 7.2.1 Subsidiarity's Economic and Ethical Foundations; 7.2.2 Subprinciples of Subsidiarity; 7.2.3 Subsidiarity as Self-Organization; 7.2.4 Subsidiarity and the Prisoner's Dilemma