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Democracy Trumped at the Limits to Growth

July 3, 2024/11 Comments/in Autocracy, Brian Czech, Complexity, Democracy, GDP, Governance, Limits to Growth, Politics, Populism, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald /by Gary Gardner

by Brian Czech

Perhaps you’ve heard: Autocracy is on the march. Not just in the obvious places like Russia, China, and North Korea. Democracy has been declining throughout the world for decades, sometimes gradually, sometimes suddenly, but invariably replaced by autocratic tendencies, politicians, and states.

What’s going on in places as far-flung as Hungary, Myanmar, and Nicaragua? Why, after the lessons of world wars, the Cold War,

American Totalism: Technology, Economy, and Nationality

December 16, 2020/3 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald, Sustainability, Technology /by Brian Czech

by Brian Snyder

“Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.” Those were the principles that underlaid most of the Tsarist governments in the final 80 years of Romanov rule. It was a slogan and a belief system, Russia’s version of “liberté, égalité, fraternité.” Eventually, under the leadership of a poor autocrat, Nicholas II, it would lead to the Russian Revolution and the brutal murder of Nicholas and his family. Yet between its coining in 1832 and the Revolution in 1917,

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