Paul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater
Brian Czech responds to Paul Krugman’s shockingly weak column, which argues against the limits to growth with the example of slow steaming.
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Brian Czech responds to Paul Krugman’s shockingly weak column, which argues against the limits to growth with the example of slow steaming.
Mainstream economists base their recommendations on the idea that the Earth is somehow infinite–a notion equally absurd as the idea that the Earth is flat.
Brian Czech discusses a theological basis for a steady state economy.
Our current economic policy goal is not fit for a finite and entropic world. But what would our economic policy goal be in a steady state economy?
To avoid a fate like the Mayans in Central America and the Polynesians on Easter Island, we will need to move toward a steady state economy–with the help of social scientists and natural scientists.
Our economy faces a futility limit, ecological catastrophe limit, and an economic limit. Fortunately, the economic limit will likely be the first we encounter; hopefully we can implement a steady state economy before the others are reached!
When individual action is too little, and national policy reform will be too late, community-based movement may be just right.
What do we do when water supplies are cut off to a city of 400,000 people?
Vermont moves to the forefront of a quiet revolution to integrate GPI into social and economic policy.
How should we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ESA and the 100 year anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon?