This is book is a history of modern American economic politics, mostly since the end of the second World War. It describes the evolution of politics as the US moved from an economy of scarcity during the depression, to an economy of expansion after the war.

The book describes the history and consequences of our adoption of Growth as the principle goal and purpose of our economy and eventually of our culture, our Growth Fetish, from Truman to Bush the Second. A long, strange and interesting tale of the economics, philosophies, personalities, politics and circumstances that landed us where we are today.