Eight Fallacies about Growth
Herman Daly’s synthesis will leave you questioning the most ingrained economic assumptions of our times.
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“Steady State Economy” — a Positive Vision in International Affairs
/4 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechBrian Czech reflects on his experience at Rio+20, including agreement among delegates about the need for steady state economics.
The Canutist State
/0 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat would King Canute do? One thing’s for sure: he wouldn’t be so arrogant as to try IBM’s approach.
Real Dichotomies Are Not Made “False” by Soft Science or Political Pandering
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechEcologists need to stop drinking the green Koolaid and tell it like it is regarding the conflict between economic growth and ecological health.
Renewable Ignorance
/9 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly considers the proper balance between “what for” and “how to” questions when selecting knowledge to transfer to the next generation.
Why Bargains are Bad
/4 Comments/in Consumption, Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Environment, Jobs and Employment, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThrift hasn’t disappeared; it just mutated into the endless search for cheaper stuff.
Economics as if the Laws of Thermodynamics Mattered
/13 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechEveryone who participates in the economy should understand the relevance of entropy to economic production and consumption.
What Is the Limiting Factor?
/14 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIt is not for nothing that our system is called “capitalism” rather than “natural resource-ism.”
The Titanic Code
/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic gets Dave Gardner thinking about the speed at which economic growth is propelling us toward unseen icebergs.
Limits to Growth – of Stuff, Value, and GDP
/16 Comments/in Economic Growth, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechLimits to growth apply to more than just “stuff,” but you have to think clearly about “value” to get it.