What Should We Tax?
Herman Daly suggests a simple rule: tax what we want less of, not what we want more of.
These are the CASSE blog articles on economic policy.
Game Changer: National Wildlife Federation Adopts a Resolution on GDP
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe National Wildlife Federation Earns the Support of the Common Sense Club.
National Wildlife Federation Adopts Key Element of Steady-State Thinking
/6 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechStrong support for kicking GDP to the curb just got stronger.
Sir Thomas Enough: Utopia and the Steady State
/4 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Jobs and Employment, Money and Investments, Population, Poverty, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWith his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.
Surely We Can Do Better than Nuclear Socialism
/3 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrent Blackwelder suggests that you don’t have to worry about a solar or wind “spill” contaminating the air, land and water.
The Green Transition Scoreboard: How to Invest for a Steady State Economy
/4 Comments/in Economic Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe Green Transition Scoreboard is a useful tool to direct investment decisions in the 21st century economy.
The Full Seas Act and the College of the 21st Century
/3 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Jobs and Employment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechStriving to create perpetually more jobs on a finite planet is a sure path to growing unemployment.
Growth of GDP and Discontent in Egypt and Tunisia
/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Food and Agriculture, Jobs and Employment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechEgypt and Tunisia have a lesson: GDP is a measure of the commotion of money in an economy, not a measure of delivered well-being.
A Liberating (but Damned Uncomfortable) Conversion
/9 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Monetary Policy, Money and Investments, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly entreats economists not to eschew the wonderful wisdom of Wendell Berry.
Economic and Environmental Perspective on President Reagan on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of His Birth
/2 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan’s ruinous results for the environment and the economy.