What’s “Rio+20” and Why Should We Care?
Rio+20 is a real opportunity for steady staters — a potential coming-out party for the economics of sustainability.
These are the CASSE blog articles on economic policy.
What Is the Limiting Factor?
/14 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIt is not for nothing that our system is called “capitalism” rather than “natural resource-ism.”
Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable Civilization
/8 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Poverty, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechEric Zencey reports encouraging news from the United Nations, but he knows a sustainable economic system won’t arise without concerted effort.
Negative Externalities Are the Norm
/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHere’s a crazy but true fact: negative externalities are the norm — not the exception — in our current economic setup.
The Titanic Code
/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic gets Dave Gardner thinking about the speed at which economic growth is propelling us toward unseen icebergs.
Deceptionomics
/1 Comment/in Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDeceptionomics allows all sorts of unwise decisions about economic growth, environmental protection, and human well-being.
Uneconomic Growth Deepens Depression
/8 Comments/in Climate Change, Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly makes the case against using obsolete growth policies to dig out of the recession, and he issues a challenge to technological optimists.
Cheater Economics
/7 Comments/in Corporate Reform, Economic Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThey say cheaters never prosper, but the cheaters seem to be doing just fine in an economy that condones their fraudulent ways.
Rescuing Obama from the Slippery Slope
/8 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIs anyone else ready for some refreshing honesty from the President regarding economic growth and the environment?
Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still Kicking Hard
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechOf course, it’s better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich — GDP growth and free trade — no longer apply.