Oil and Real Estate Bubbles in Canada: What Goes up Won’t so Smoothly Come Down
Magnus-Johnston explains how these investments are funded, and how it exacerbates our economy’s growth imperative.
These are the CASSE blog articles on economic policy.
A Population Perspective on the Steady State Economy
/9 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Energy, Environment, Governance, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe population problem should be considered from the point of view of all populations–populations of both humans and their things–if we are going to achieve a steady state economy.
Use and Abuse of the “Natural Capital” Concept
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Policy, Environment, Monetary Policy, Money and Investments, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly explains how we can use prices now as tools for rationing a fixed predetermined flow of resources, rather than determining the volume of resources taken from nature, or the physical scale of the economic subsystem.
An Economics Fit for Purpose in a Finite World
/10 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechOur current economic policy goal is not fit for a finite and entropic world. But what would our economic policy goal be in a steady state economy?
Three Limits to Growth
/8 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechOur economy faces a futility limit, ecological catastrophe limit, and an economic limit. Fortunately, the economic limit will likely be the first we encounter; hopefully we can implement a steady state economy before the others are reached!
Building a Local Movement: Transition Winnipeg Embraces the Steady State Economy
/3 Comments/in Economic Policy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhen individual action is too little, and national policy reform will be too late, community-based movement may be just right.
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.
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.
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?