What Is the Limiting Factor?

It is not for nothing that our system is called “capitalism” rather than “natural resource-ism.”

Uneconomic Growth Deepens Depression

Herman Daly makes the case against using obsolete growth policies to dig out of the recession, and he issues a challenge to technological optimists.

Technological Progress for Dummies

Part 1 of Brian Czech’s explanation of why we can’t rely on technological progress to overcome the limits to economic growth.

Growth, Debt, and the World Bank

Herman Daly wonders how the World Bank got in the business of increasing the debt of poor countries.

The New Austerity and the EROI Squeeze

Eric Zencey explains why it would be wise to pay proper attention to energy return on investment.

Two Schools and the Path to the Steady State

Concerned about the fate of civilization? Maybe there’s some good news from an unlikely source.

Not Production, Not Consumption, but Transformation

You can always count on Herman Daly to ask the critical questions: “How did this nonsense come into economics?”

Surely We Can Do Better than Nuclear Socialism

Brent Blackwelder suggests that you don’t have to worry about a solar or wind “spill” contaminating the air, land and water.

In Search of Answers about Economic Growth

It’s time to rethink the dilemma of economic growth and find some much-needed answers for the economy.

Enough Is Enough

Brian Czech’s foreword to the new report, Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.