What Should We Tax?
Herman Daly suggests a simple rule: tax what we want less of, not what we want more of.
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Game Changer: National Wildlife Federation Adopts a Resolution on GDP
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe National Wildlife Federation Earns the Support of the Common Sense Club.
Economic and Environmental Perspective on President Reagan on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of His Birth
/2 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan’s ruinous results for the environment and the economy.
How to Fix a Household Crisis
/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhy are the fields of economics and ecology in crisis, and how can we work toward a solution?
Ecosystem Services: Pricing to Peddle?
/7 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechMarkets are good for several things, but allocating ecosystem services is not one of them.
Behavioral Economics: a Breath of Fresh Air
/10 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, The Daly News /by Brian CzechErrant economists irrationally expect an excess of rationality. Enter the behavioral and ecological economists to examine experiences in the real world.
Elitist Growth by Cheap Labor Policies
/9 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Jobs and Employment, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechJettisoned jobs, illegal immigration, and manic mechanization make for profoundly impractical employment policies.
Opportunity Cost of Growth
/6 Comments/in Biodiversity, Climate Change, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Population, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly swims upstream like a salmon, fighting the flow of fallacious philosophy from growth economists — you won’t want to miss his final refrain on this one.
Modernizing Henry George
/8 Comments/in Climate Change, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly elaborates on the economics of Henry George — reckoning with resources, redistributing rents, and a supplying a sane strategy for serving people and planet.