A New Economy Will Help Save Rivers and Fisheries
Many activities that today damage rivers and fisheries would not occur in a steady state economy.
These are the CASSE blog articles on money and investments.
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.
Peace, Love, and the Gift
/3 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Money and Investments, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIf we are to degrow the economy towards a steady state, we’re going to need to be a whole lot more generous, a whole lot happier, and more grateful for what we have already.
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.
Do U.S. Election Financing Laws Force Politicians to Ignore Limits to Growth?
/1 Comment/in Environment, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrent Blackwelder explains the connection between campaign financing laws and a steady state economy.
Piketty Acknowledges a Limit to Inequality–Will He Acknowledge the Limits to Growth?
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWe are going to need more than a wealth tax to fix our economy.
The One Percent: Not Kristallnacht but Lebensraum
/0 Comments/in Brian Czech, Consumption, Economic Policy, Food and Agriculture, Money and Investments, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe talking points of conspicuous consumers can be just as obnoxious as their purchasing habits.
The One Percent: Not Kristallnacht but Lebensraum
/1 Comment/in Brian Czech, Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe purchase of expensive luxury goods requires an agricultural and extractive surplus at the base of the economy–this is the “tropic theory of money.”
The Negative Natural Interest Rate and Uneconomic Growth
/6 Comments/in Banking, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Jobs and Employment, Monetary Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe next nonsensical strategy for maintaining the dream of endless GDP expansion? Negative interest rates!
Top 10 Policies for a Steady State Economy
/15 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Jobs and Employment, Money and Investments, Population, Poverty, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhile we’re hunkered down enduring the inevitable collapse of the growth economy, we should consider sound policies for a sustainable economy.