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Chapter One: The One Best Way

Neil Postman, "Science and the Story That We Need"

Tom Frank's Baffler magazine

Gary Chapman's Web site is at http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/21cp

"Industrial Society and Its Future," better known as the Unabomber Manifesto, appears on several Web sites, including http://www.panix.com/~clays/Una/index.html and http://www.thecourier.com/manifest.htm

Julie Pitta, "Laissez-faire Not Spoken Here"

Richard Sclove and Jeffrey Scheuer's ideas about making science and technology subject to more local political control are featured at http://www.loka.org

Sara Baase, "Impacts on Communities: Comments on Sclove and Scheuer"

Joseph Nocera, "Fatal Litigation"

Michael Fumento, "A Confederacy of Boobs"

Curtis J. Sitomer, "Genetic Engineering".

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Chapter Two: The Party of Life

For more on the work of Friedrich Hayek, who coined the term "the party of life," see The Friedrich Hayek Scholars' Page at http://www.hayekcenter.org/friedrichhayek/hayek.html

For more on complexity theory and its relation to order without design, see the Santa Fe Institute's site at http://www.santafe.edu

Grant McCracken, Plenitude and Plenitude 2.0, http://www.cultureby.com

Virginia Postrel's interview with Tom Peters

Virginia Postrel's interview with Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson's Web site is at http://www.edventure.com

Brink Lindsey's trade policy Web site is at http://www.freetrade.org

Julian Simon, "The Five Greatest Years for Humanity"

Richard Barbook and Andy Cameron, "The Californian Ideology," under "politics," which is under "theory."

Daniel H. Pink, "Free Agent Nation"

Dan Pink's free agent Web site is at http://www.freeagentnation.com

Martha S. Siegel, "Anarchy, Chaos on the Internet Must End"

Mike Godwin has many articles on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's site, http://www.eff.org

Glenn Garvin, "Reaping the Whirlwind"

James K. Glassman, "A Credo, Not a Contract"

Other columns by Jim Glassman are archived at http://www.reason.com/glassman/glassman.html

Aaron Wildavsky, "Progress and Public Policy"

Randal O'Toole has many articles on dynamist environmental and urban policy at http://www.ti.org

Jesse Ausubel's has articles analyzing resource use from a dynamist perspective at http://phe.rockefeller.edu/jesse

John Tierney, "Betting on the Planet"

Michael Cox has written a number of annual reports for the Dallas Fed

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Paul Romer's Web site is at http://www.stanford.edu/~promer

Grant McCracken's Plenitude and Plenitude 2.0 are at http://www.cultureby.com

The Boskin Report is now on the Web again. A Wall Street Journal article by Michael Boskin summarizing the report's arguments appears at http://www-hoover.stanford.edu.

Virginia Postrel, "Resilience vs. Anticipation"

Michael Oakes, "Shaky Recovery"

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Chapter Four: The Tree of Knowledge

Lynn Scarlett, "Smogged Down"

Freeman Dyson, "The Hidden Costs of Saying No," from From Eros to Gaia

Freeman Dyson, "Six Cautionary Tales for Scientists," from From Eros to Gaia

Peter Drucker interview with Peter Schwartz and Kevin Kelly

John Perry Barlow, "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"

Eric von Hippel's work, including a downloadable version of "'Sticky Information' and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation"

Friedrich A. Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society"

John Tierney, "A Kick for the Economy"

Tama Starr, "The 7.63% Solution"

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Chapter Five: The Bonds of Life

An important source of scholarly work on rules, institutions, and evolving social and economic processes is the International Society for the New Institutional Economics.. For dynamist articles on Internet governance, see the Cyberspace Law Institute's site..

"Challenging Barriers to Economic Opportunity: Cornwell v. California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology". Information on an earlier case involving African-style hair braiders is here.

Chip Morningstar, "Settlements on the Electronic Frontier" (and other papers)

Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer, "The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat"

F. Randall Farmer, "Habitat Anecdotes" (and other papers)

Sharon Eisner Gillett and Mitchell Kapor, "The Self-Governing Internet: Coordination by Design"

Stewart Brand's site includes a brief, illustrative excerpt from How Buildings Learn

Nina Shokraii, "Adopting Racism"

Donna G. Matias, "Separate Is Not Equal: Striking Down State-Sanctioned Barriers to Interracial Adoption."

Randall Kennedy, "Orphans of Separation"

Virginia Postrel's interview with Esther Dyson

David Brewster, "Let's Chuck Charter Schools and Get On with Our Lives"

Brian Lamb interview with Thomas W. Hazlett and Rick Henderson

Virginia Postrel's interview with Tom Peters

David R. Johnson and David G. Post, "Law and Borders"

David R. Johnson and David G. Post, "And How Shall the Net Be Governed?" See also "The Self-Ordering Net"

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Jared Diamond, "How to Tame a Wild Plant," search at http://www.discover.com/archive/index.html

Andrew Marvell, "The Mower Against Gardens"

Frederick Turner, "The Merchant of Avon"

Daniel Botkin has a Web site at http://www.naturestudy.org

Karl Hess Jr., "Wild Success"

Leon R. Kass, "The Wisdom of Repugnance," is included in Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson, The Ethics of Human Cloning

Gregory Benford, "Biology: 2001"

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Jerry Yang (interview), "Turn On, Type In and Drop Out"

Brink Lindsey, "Big Mistake"

Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Fertile Verge: Creativity in the United States"

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Chapter Eight: On the Verge

Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Fertile Verge: Creativity in the United States"

Frederick Turner, "The Universal Solvent," from Tempest, Flute, and Oz

Maria Alicia Gaura, "Sikh Temple Plans Run Afoul of Neighbors"

Oliver Morton, "Overcoming Yuk"

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Nightline program on IDEO (RealVideo): This feature on the product-development firm IDEO echoes many dynamist themes, including the importance of local knowledge, the power of play, and the greater creativity of many minds pursuing goals in different ways rather than one grand plan.

Pleasantville: As many readers and commentators have noted, this movie, released about a month before TFAIE, offers an entertaining exploration of what happens when creativity and the pursuit of happiness enter a truly static "utopia."

The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama: Don't let the gloomy tone of the first half fool you. Fukuyama's latest work is an important contribution to the debate over how social order emerges, in part because it is conventional enough not to scare the political-intellectual establishment. My review of the book appeared in the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

The New Pioneers by Thomas Petzinger Jr.: Tom was until recently a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and his book explores dynamism in a business context. When an excerpt ran in the WSJ, many readers sent me e-mail about the parallels. You can find excerpts from the book, along with other material, on Tom's site at www.petzinger.com.

"King Faisal and the Tide of Technology," a Forbes article by Peter Huber and Mark Mills provides an excellent example of "form follows failure" incremental progress. Huber and Mills explain that oil supplies have increased even as prices have dropped, thanks to many small improvements in exploration and drilling techniques. Neither the doomsayers of the 1970s, nor their free-market opponents, who argued that price increases would drive new discoveries, turned out to be right. Peter Huber's new book Hard Green makes a case for an environmentalism that appreciates the positive role of technology in environmental progress.