When Growth Trumps Freedom: the Chill in Canada Comes from our Government, not the Weather
Some politicians will go quite far to cling to an aging growth-at-all-costs narrative.
These are the CASSE blog articles on economic policy.
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.
Oil and Real Estate Bubbles in Canada: What Goes up Won’t so Smoothly Come Down
/7 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechMagnus-Johnston explains how these investments are funded, and how it exacerbates our economy’s growth imperative.
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?