The Overlooked Anniversary: Forty Years Ago Congress and the President Called for a Steady State Economy
How should we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ESA and the 100 year anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon?
These are the CASSE blog articles on economic growth.
Cold War Leftovers
/13 Comments/in Banking, Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Governance, Monetary Policy, Politics, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDaly challenges the assertion that a steady-state economy is inherently capitalistic and must be instead be based on a socialist system.
Piketty Acknowledges a Limit to Inequality–Will He Acknowledge the Limits to Growth?
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWe are going to need more than a wealth tax to fix our economy.
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.
Integrating Ecology and Economics
/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat is the best strategy for incorporating limits to growth into economics?
Building a Movement for Happiness
/2 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechOur guest post discusses some exciting initiatives to augment GDP with indicators that measure our well-being or happiness.
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.”
Krugman’s Growthism
/5 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDoes Paul Krugman believe GDP growth is making us richer or poorer?
Depletion of Moral Capital as a Limit to Growth
/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Politics, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHow is the depletion of morality effecting the environment and economic growth?
What to Do When You Suspect We’re Headed for Collapse
/9 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat can you do in the face environmental and social mayhem? Learn something, say something, and do something.