ecological tax reform Archives – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Introducing the Sustainable Taxes Act

March 20, 2025/5 Comments/in Economic Policy, Inequality, Money and Investments, Politics, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald, Sustainability, Wealth /by Alix Underwood

by David Shreve

In a world where GDP exceeds our planet’s biocapacity, we badly need new economic policy. In particular, we need to halt the process of unsustainable growth and move toward a steady state economy. The critical question is how to do this while ensuring sufficient economic opportunities, employment, and income for all.

Technological changes are insufficient, despite holding some promise. Neither the agricultural “Green Revolution” nor energy use efficiencies have markedly changed the ongoing overshoot.

Reply to Troy Vettese’s “Against Steady-State Economics” ¹

March 18, 2020/1 Comment/in Biodiversity, Climate Change, Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Politics, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald /by Brian Czech

by Herman Daly

Steady staters are used to being attacked by right-wing neoliberals. Attacks from left-wing neo-Marxists are new and require a reply. To put the matter simply, Marxists hate capitalism, and they mistakenly assume that steady-state economics is inherently capitalist. Vettese is a Marxist; ergo, Vettese hates steady-state economics.

To spell this out, let’s begin by giving Marx due credit for emphasizing the reality of class exploitation under all heretofore existing economic systems,

Top 10 Policies for a Steady State Economy

October 28, 2013/15 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Jobs and Employment, Money and Investments, Population, Poverty, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

While we’re hunkered down enduring the inevitable collapse of the growth economy, we should consider sound policies for a sustainable economy.

Sustaining our Commonwealth of Nature and Knowledge

January 30, 2011/12 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

How can we get a sustainable, fair, and efficient economy? Herman Daly breaks it down.

Modernizing Henry George

July 18, 2010/8 Comments/in Climate Change, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Herman Daly elaborates on the economics of Henry George — reckoning with resources, redistributing rents, and a supplying a sane strategy for serving people and planet.

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