Peace, Love, and the Gift
If we are to degrow the economy towards a steady state, we’re going to need to be a whole lot more generous, a whole lot happier, and more grateful for what we have already.
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?
Use and Abuse of the “Natural Capital” Concept
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Policy, Environment, Monetary Policy, Money and Investments, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly explains how we can use prices now as tools for rationing a fixed predetermined flow of resources, rather than determining the volume of resources taken from nature, or the physical scale of the economic subsystem.
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.
The New Economy versus Today’s Flat Earthers
/1 Comment/in Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechMainstream 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.