Oil and Real Estate Bubbles in Canada: What Goes up Won’t so Smoothly Come Down
Magnus-Johnston explains how these investments are funded, and how it exacerbates our economy’s growth imperative.
These are the CASSE blog articles on the steady state economy.
A Population Perspective on the Steady State Economy
/9 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Energy, Environment, Governance, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe 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
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechA 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
/12 Comments/in Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDaly 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.
The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy
/1 Comment/in Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat can one person do to affect positive changes for Planet Earth? Look to the city level for inspiring answers!
Hedonism, Survivalism, and the Burden of Knowledge
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat do we do with the knowledge that we may be headed for climate catastrophe?
Animal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens
/5 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHas economic growth become the inconvenient truth for animal welfare?
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.
Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever?
/7 Comments/in Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIs there an evolutionary mechanism stopping us from living within our planetary constraints? If so, can we overcome it before it is too late?
Paul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater
/2 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrian Czech responds to Paul Krugman’s shockingly weak column, which argues against the limits to growth with the example of slow steaming.