George Will, Doomsday, and the
Straw-Man Sighting
George Will’s accusations are almost as far-fetched as his “facts.”
Straw-Man Sighting
George Will, Doomsday, and the
Straw-Man Sighting
These are the CASSE blog articles on technology.
Straw-Man Sighting
Renewable Ignorance
/9 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly considers the proper balance between “what for” and “how to” questions when selecting knowledge to transfer to the next generation.
Why Bargains are Bad
/4 Comments/in Consumption, Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Environment, Jobs and Employment, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThrift hasn’t disappeared; it just mutated into the endless search for cheaper stuff.
What Is the Limiting Factor?
/14 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIt is not for nothing that our system is called “capitalism” rather than “natural resource-ism.”
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.
Technological Progress for Dummies
/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechPart 1 of Brian Czech’s explanation of why we can’t rely on technological progress to overcome the limits to economic growth.
Growth, Debt, and the World Bank
/5 Comments/in Banking, Economic Growth, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly wonders how the World Bank got in the business of increasing the debt of poor countries.
Two Schools and the Path to the Steady State Economy
/10 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechConcerned about the fate of civilization? Maybe there’s some good news from an unlikely source.
Not Production, Not Consumption, but Transformation
/6 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechYou can always count on Herman Daly to ask the critical questions: “How did this nonsense come into economics?”
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.