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Challenging the Pro-Growth Market: Mark Carney’s Reith Lectures and the Need for a Radical Approach

January 6, 2021/8 Comments/in Economic Policy, Steady State Herald /by Brian Czech

by James MacGregor Palmer

“Society won’t settle for worthy statements followed by futile gestures. It won’t settle for countries announcing plans in Paris five years ago for 2.8 degrees warming, far too high, that they don’t even meet. Society won’t settle for companies that preach green but don’t manage their carbon footprints, or financial institutions who can’t tell us whether our money is on the right or wrong side of climate history.”

These are not the words of an environmental activist,

Social Solidarity Requires a Universal Basic Income

April 29, 2020/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Monetary Policy, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald, Sustainability /by Brian Czech

By James Magnus-Johnston

Going forward in these uncertain times, a universal basic income could be the best way to maintain social solidarity—whether referring to health, wellbeing, or public order. “Solidarity,” writes Eric Klinenberg, “motivates us to promote public health, not just our own personal security. It keeps us from hoarding medicine” and prompts us “to knock on our older neighbor’s door.” It is a structure and a mindset that breaks down the barriers of inequality and improves trust,

Piketty Acknowledges a Limit to Inequality–Will He Acknowledge the Limits to Growth?

July 17, 2014/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

We are going to need more than a wealth tax to fix our economy.

Tensions in Ukraine: A Scramble for Growth?

March 24, 2014/2 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

When viewed through the lens of ecological economics and energy resources, the situation in Ukraine comes into sharp focus.

Top 10 Policies for a Steady State Economy

October 28, 2013/13 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.

A Mindful Path to a Steady State Economy

November 27, 2011/8 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Rick Heller explains how to substitute mindfulness for greed in the transition to a new economy.

Growth of GDP and Discontent in Egypt and Tunisia

March 7, 2011/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Food and Agriculture, Jobs and Employment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Egypt and Tunisia have a lesson: GDP is a measure of the commotion of money in an economy, not a measure of delivered well-being.