Harland Wm. Whitmore, Jr. is currently professor of economics at the University of Cincinnati. He has published several books in open economy macroeconomics, including "Aggregate Economic Choice" (1986), "World Economy Macroeconomics" (1997) and "Global Environmental Economics" (1999). For the last several years, he has also consulted with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working on the integration of the macroeconomy with an ecological system. One outcome of this effort was the publication of a report "Integration of an Economy under Imperfect Competition with a Twelve-Cell Ecologica...