What Is the Limiting Factor?
It is not for nothing that our system is called “capitalism” rather than “natural resource-ism.”
These are the CASSE blog articles on technology.
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.
In Search of Answers about Economic Growth
/19 Comments/in Economic Growth, Jobs and Employment, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIt’s time to rethink the dilemma of economic growth and find some much-needed answers for the economy.
Enough Is Enough
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Jobs and Employment, Money and Investments, Population, Poverty, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrian Czech’s foreword to the new report, Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.
Opportunity Cost of Growth
/6 Comments/in Biodiversity, Climate Change, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Population, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly swims upstream like a salmon, fighting the flow of fallacious philosophy from growth economists — you won’t want to miss his final refrain on this one.