Environmental Heroes Can Inspire Economic Reformers
Brent Blackwelder looks to this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize winners for inspiration in the fight for a sustainable and fair economy.
These are the CASSE blog articles on the environment.
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.
Capital, Debt, and Alchemy
/4 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Money and Investments, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly explains Frederick Soddy’s far-reaching economic insight, and he comes up with a doozy of a conclusion.
The Influence of Donella Meadows and Limits to Growth
/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDonella Meadows was way ahead of her time, and her words continue to provide inspiration 40 years after she wrote The Limits to Growth.
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.
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.
The Fallacy of the Tragedy of the Commons
/13 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechGarrett Hardin seems to have made the some incorrect assumptions about human behavior — assumptions familiar to students of economics.
Why Do We Assume More Equals Better?
/2 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, The Daly News /by Brian CzechCount Chocula and the people who give him a voice are working off an untested assumption.
Technological Progress for Dummies, Part II
/1 Comment/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrian Czech explains the nuts and bolts of technological progress and why it won’t solve the dilemma of growth.