Renewable Ignorance
Herman Daly considers the proper balance between “what for” and “how to” questions when selecting knowledge to transfer to the next generation.
These are the CASSE blog articles on technology.
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.
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.