Full Employment Versus Jobless Growth
Economic growth is not the same things as “more jobs,” especially with the methods we’ve used to grow the economy.
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Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still Kicking Hard
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechOf course, it’s better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich — GDP growth and free trade — no longer apply.
Book Review: Economics Unmasked: From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good by Phillip B. Smith and Manfred Max-Neef
/3 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Policy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechMIT-PhD-IMF-BMW. Although this career path may benefit specific economists, it fails to serve the common good.
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.