Welcome to BTI Day 1 - June 14th:
"Ecological Innovation and the Apollo Experiment"
Peter Teague
Michael and Ted welcome lecture: "Shifting Paradigms and the Breakthrough Approach"
I. Modernization & Development - Day 2,3 - June 15th & 16th:
— Modernization Theory
"The Social Constraint Toward Self-Constraint"
Norbert Elias in The Civilizing Process. Vol. II. State Formation and Civilization.:: 365-379 (Page
count: 14)
Culture and Democracy
Ronald Inglehart in Culture Matters, (Basic Books: 2000) :: (Page count: 17)
The Progress Paradox
Gregg Easterbrook (Random House: 2003) :: Chapter 2 (Page count: 44)
Break Through (skim)
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (Mariner Books: 2007) :: Chapter 7, “Status and Security.”
(Page count: 30)
The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault :: Right of Death and Power over Life 135-148 (Page count: 14 pages)
Story of the Security State
Nick Adams, Breakthrough Institute (Page count: 15 pages)
Total Page Count: 134 pages
— Challenges to Modernization Theory and the Challenge of Development
We Have Never Been Modern
Bruno Latour (Harvard University Press: 1991) :: Chapter 1 (Page count: 12)
Al Qaeda and What it Means to Be Modern
John Gray (The New Press: 2003) Chapters 1,2, 6,7, 8 (Page count: 77)
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Jeffrey Sachs (Penguin Press: 2008) :: Chapter 2, pages 17-31 (Page count: 15)
The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria (W.W. Norton: 2008) :: Chapters 1, 4 and 5 (Page count: 84)
The Bottom Billion
Paul Collier (Oxford University Press: 2007) :: Chapters 1, 6, 11 (Page count: 49)
Total Page Count: 237
Lectures: Nick Adams (second morning): Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Elias, Bourdieu, Foucault,
Giddens, Inglehart
II. Social Psychology and/of American Modernity - Days 4-5 - June 17, 18:
Social Space and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu :: 123-139 (Page count: 16)
The Rise of the Creative Class
Richard Florida (Basic Books: 2002) :: Chapters 3 (Page count: 17)
The Impact of Inequality
Richard Wilkinson (New Press: 2005) :: Chapter 1-3 (Page count: 100)
American Environics Research—Annual Social Values Survey (reference)
Total Page Count: 133
---------------------------------------------Elsewhere USA
Dalton Conley (Random House: 2009) :: Chapters 1 (19-38), 3 (67-84), Conclusion (172-190)
(Page count: 54)
Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After all
David Leonhardt (The New York Times: April 2008) (Page count: 3)
The Green Bubble
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (The New Republic: May 2009) (Page count: 3)
“Dire Messages reduce belief in Global Warming”
Matthew Feinberg and Rob Willer (Intro and Discussion) (Page count: 6)
Break Through (skim)
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (Mariner Books: 2007) :: Chapters 6 “Death of
Environmentalism” and 8 “Status and Security.” (Page count: 52)
Guest lecturers:
Robb Willer
Michael and Ted: Road Map to a Progressive Majority
Total Page Count: 118
III. Aspirational Philosophy and Politics - Day 6 - June 21
Break Through (skim)
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (Mariner Books: 2007) :: Chapters 9 “Pragmatism” and
10 “Greatness” (Page count: 57)
Essay on "Self Reliance"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Page count: 20)
Individualism Old and New
John Dewey (Prometheus Books: 1999) :: Chapter 5, "Toward a New Individualism" (pps 37-49)
and pages 81-83 of Chapter 8, "Individualism in Our Day" (Page count: 16)
Discussion Led by Jesse Jenkins-- "The Project of Individualism" - from the Enlightenment
to a modern conception of the project of individualism, and what it implies for our political, legal
and moral structures.
Total Page Count: 93
IV. Economics & Innovation Policy - Day 7--June 22:
The Origin of Wealth
Eric Beinhocker (Harvard Business School Press, 2006):: Chapters 1-3 (Page count: 73)
The Past & Future of America’s Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power
Cycles of Growth
Robert Atkinson (Edward Elgar Publishing Inc: 2004) :: Chapters 2, 7, (Page count: 57)
Making Washington Focus: First, Re-Educate the Economists
Robert Atkinson (Democracy Journal, Fall 2009)
"Is America Losing It's Mojo?"
Fareed Zakaria (Newsweek, Fall 2009) (Page count: 4)
"Can the Future Be Built in America?"
Pete Engardio (Businessweek, Fall 2009) (Page count: 4)
Building a Green Economy
Breakthrough Institute Draft Concept Paper (2010) (Page count: 6)
Guest lecturers:
 Rob Atkinson
Total Page Count: 93
V. Technology Policy and its Implications Day 8--June 23
The Nature of Technology
Brian Arthur (2009) (Chapter 1) (Page count: 18)
“Innovation Nation”
Robert Atkinson (Democracy Journal: Winter 2009) (Page count: 6)
“Case Studies in American Innovation: A New Look at Government Involvement in
Technological Development” (Online)
Zachary Arnold et al. (Breakthrough Institute: April 2009) :: Intro and skim chapters (Page
count: 29)
“A Capital Budget for Public Investment”
Sherle Schwenninger (New American Foundation: 2008)
“Progress for Progressives: Technology & Effectiveness in Human Affairs”
Daniel Sarewitz (Lecture in Science & Technology, Arizona State University: Sept. 2008) (Page
count: 12)
Three Rules for Technological fixes
Dan Sarewitz (Nature, December 2008) (Page count: 2)
“Globalization of Technology-Based Growth: The Policy Imperative”
Gregory Tassey (Journal of Technology Transfer: June 2008) (Page count: 15)
"Whole Earth Discipline"
Stewart Brand:: (VIKING: 2009) Green Genes (117-142, 152-168) (Page count: 41)
Video: Steward Brand's Ted Talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_proclaims_4_environmental_heresies.html
Total Page Count: 109
Guest Lecturer: Daniel Sarewitz
------------------------------------------------------------Pre-Humboldt Readings:
America at the Crossroads
Francis Fukuyama :: (Yale University Press: 2006) (Page count: 57)
Contradictions of Second Modernity
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
HUMBOLDT CAMPING TRIP: Day 9, 10, Weekend (June 24, 25)
VI. Energy & Climate Policy - Day 11,12,13--June 28, 29 and 30:
“Future Global Energy Prosperity: The Terrawatt Challenge”
Richard Smalley (MRS Bulletin: June 2005) (Page count: 6)
“Powering the Planet”
Nate Lewis (MRS Bulletin: October 2007) (Page count: 14)
Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
Vaclav Smil (MIT Press: 2003) :: 4, 5, (Page count: 135)
Renewable and Nuclear Heresies
Jesse Ausubel (Page count: 15)
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will
Never Run Out of Energy
Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills (Basic Books: 2005) :: Chapter 1, 2, and 3 (Page count: 57)
Total Page Count: 227
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------"Large Scale Deployment of Renewables for Electricity Generation"
Karsten Neuhoff (Oxford Review of Economic Policy: Vol 21, No 1, 2005) (Page count: 20)
The Emerging Climate Consensus
Nordhaus and Shellenberger (Breakthrough Institute: Spring 2009) :: in particular, "Fast, Clean
& Cheap" and "Scrap Kyoto," pages 23-54; skim all others (Page count: 32)
Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian (MIT Press: 2009) :: Chapters 1, 2, 3 (pages 1-55); Chapter
5, pages 127-134, Chapter 6, pages 151-154 (Page count: 67)
Total Page Count: 119
---------------------------------------------------------------------“Dangerous Assumptions”
Roger Pielke Jr et al. (Nature: Vol 452, April 2008) (Page count: 2)
"Whole Earth Discipline"
Stewart Brand:: (VIKING: 2009) New Nukes 75-116 (Page count: 42)
“The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming”
David Victor (Foreign Affairs: March/April 2009) (Page count: 3)
“Beyond Green Jobs”
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (The New Republic, June 2010)
Total Page Count: 60
Guest lecturers:
 Roger Pielke, Jr.
 Nate Lewis
 Bill Bonvillian
 Dave Douglas
BTI staff lectures/presentations:
- Jesse: Energy and Power: WTF?! Understanding units of energy, their scale and how to
convert between them.
-Devon (and/or Jesse): Asia's Rising Tigers and a strategy to secure America's clean
energy competitiveness.
VI. National Security and Counterterrorism
How Terrorism Ends
by Audrey Kurth Cronin (Page count: 206)
Why People Obey the Law
by Tom Tyler - to be perused (Page count: 277)
Leaderless Jihad
by Marc Sageman (Page count: 178)
Breakthrough White Paper on NSCT (Page count: 75 pages)
Violence and Social Order
Douglass North et al (Page count: 271)
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault :: "The Body of the Condemned" 3-29 "Panopticism" 195-227 (Page count: 58)