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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,

Toward a Finite-Planet Journalism

February 3, 2014/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

If the majority of voters remain ecologically illiterate, they must give up either civilization or democracy.

Growth and Laissez-faire

September 23, 2013/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Energy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Laissez-faire takes on a new meaning — it is the ecosystem, not the economy that must be “left alone” to manage itself and evolve by its own rules.

The Infinite-Planet Approach Won’t Solve the European Debt Crisis

December 18, 2011/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

To fix the European debt crisis and prevent the next series of financial crises, we’d better learn the lessons of our finite planet.