Economic Growth « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

The Fallacy of the Tragedy of the Commons

Garrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior — assumptions familiar to students of economics.

Count Chocula and the people who give him a voice are working off an untested assumption.

Brian Czech explains the nuts and bolts of technological progress and why it won’t solve the dilemma of growth.

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

Herman Daly succinctly sums up the steady-state perspective in his suggestion for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

To fix the European debt crisis and prevent the next series of financial crises, we’d better learn the lessons of our finite planet.

James Johnston sees through what could only be described as a hoax by Canada’s Minister of the Environment.

Obama probably understands the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet — he just needs the mandate to do something about it.

Good and bads, wealth and illth — economic growth produces them all. But how big are the bads and how damaging is the illth?

America is about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not the pursuit of comfort.