Preempting a Misleading Argument: Why Environmental Problems Will Stop Tracking with GDP
Brian explains how GDP growth will eventually stop tracking with environmental damage–but the reasons may not be what you’d expect!
These are the CASSE blog articles by Brian Czech.
Who Moved Obama’s Win-Win Cheese?
/10 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czechby Brian Czech
Whether or not you like President Obama or his policy preferences, you have to acknowledge his consistency. Even those with “zero regard” for the president confess, “At least Obama is consistent.”
But not consistently. There is one issue, at least, on which he hasn’t held still, moving in and out like an octopus in a sunken ship. That issue is the relationship between economic growth and environmental protection.
A Stick in the Stocking: Santa’s Supply Shock
/5 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechA drop in fuel prices may seem great now, but what happens after the party is over?
Animal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens
/5 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHas economic growth become the inconvenient truth for animal welfare?
Paul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater
/2 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrian Czech responds to Paul Krugman’s shockingly weak column, which argues against the limits to growth with the example of slow steaming.
The Kingdom of God: A Steady State Economy?
/4 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrian Czech discusses a theological basis for a steady state economy.
The Overlooked Anniversary: Forty Years Ago Congress and the President Called for a Steady State Economy
/6 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHow should we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ESA and the 100 year anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon?
Gross Domestic Problem: Don’t Shoot the Measurement
/8 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechGDP growth is creating more problems than it solves–which is exactly why we need to keep calculating and monitoring it.
The One Percent: Not Kristallnacht but Lebensraum
/1 Comment/in Brian Czech, Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe purchase of expensive luxury goods requires an agricultural and extractive surplus at the base of the economy–this is the “tropic theory of money.”
Duck Dynasty, the Green Party, and Steady Statesmanship
/7 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechFirst things first — you can’t have a healthy economy unless you also have a healthy environment. Shouldn’t at least one political party get that?