Steady State Economy Archives – Page 25 of 48 – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

When Growth Trumps Freedom: the Chill in Canada Comes from our Government, not the Weather

February 26, 2015/8 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Some politicians will go quite far to cling to an aging growth-at-all-costs narrative.

Potential New Allies in the Effort to Achieve a Sustainable True Cost Economy

February 11, 2015/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Dr. Blackwelder discusses how those in faith-based communities can become powerful allies for those of us seeking an economy that meets peoples’ needs without undermining the life support systems of the planet.

Who Moved Obama’s Win-Win Cheese?

February 4, 2015/10 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

by 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

January 22, 2015/7 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Magnus-Johnston explains how these investments are funded, and how it exacerbates our economy’s growth imperative.

A Population Perspective on the Steady State Economy

January 15, 2015/9 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Energy, Environment, Governance, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

The 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.

Crossroads on Global Infrastructure

January 8, 2015/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

A momentous choice is before us. Will we choose more mega-highway projects, centralized electric power plants, and mega-dams, or more decentralized wind and solar investments?

The Guardian and Monbiot versus Forbes and Worstall

December 11, 2014/12 Comments/in Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Daly explains how the conflation of growth and development, and a reliance on the Cobb-Douglass production function, can lead to the spurious conclusion that natural resources are unimportant factors of production.