Functional Inefficiency: The Unexpected Benefits of Wasting Time and Money

Abstract

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: How Inefficiency Can Be Beneficial -- 2. Idling Workers I: Convicts and Women -- 3. Manufacturing for International Markets -- 4. Environmental Limits: Food and Water -- 5. Environmental Limits: Food and Warming -- 6. Functional Inefficiency in Transportation -- 7. Functional Inefficiency in Healthcare -- 8. Consumerism and Individual Discontent -- 9. Consumerism, Competition, and Social Disaffection -- 10. Idling Workers II: More Vacations and Paid Leaves, Fewer Hours, and Earlier Retirement -- 11. Physical Infrastructure and Public Goods -- 12. Human Infrastructure -- 13. The Service Sector and Indefinite Economic Growth -- 14. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.