Occupy the G-8
When the G-8 convened at Camp David, Brent Blackwelder was on hand to address the Occupy Movement.
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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.”
Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable Civilization
/8 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Poverty, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechEric Zencey reports encouraging news from the United Nations, but he knows a sustainable economic system won’t arise without concerted effort.
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.
Deceptionomics
/1 Comment/in Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDeceptionomics allows all sorts of unwise decisions about economic growth, environmental protection, and human well-being.
Uneconomic Growth Deepens Depression
/8 Comments/in Climate Change, Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly makes the case against using obsolete growth policies to dig out of the recession, and he issues a challenge to technological optimists.
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.
Technological Progress for Dummies
/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechPart 1 of Brian Czech’s explanation of why we can’t rely on technological progress to overcome the limits to economic growth.
Could Obama Be the First Steady-State President?
/3 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechObama probably understands the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet — he just needs the mandate to do something about it.
Wealth, Illth, and Net Welfare
/9 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechGood and bads, wealth and illth — economic growth produces them all. But how big are the bads and how damaging is the illth?