Here are two lists for the post-growth, steady state economy. The first list is for those of you who haven’t done much reading or are new to the topics. I would suggest reading them for an introduction into steady state concepts and then move on to the more in-depth list. The second list is what [...]
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“That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin” – John Ruskin Herman Daly is often given credit for pioneering the term “Uneconomic Growth.“ It is a key term in ecological economics and Daly has given us numerous works on the subject. What is uneconomic growth? It [...]
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Sustainability is quite the buzzword nowadays. What is sustainability anyway? It would appear at face value to have a simple, easily understood meaning. On the contrary, almost everything labeled “sustainable” is not, creating ambiguity in the meaning of the concept. It has become more of a marketing tool than an actual process. Being sustainable is quite [...]
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Buy This Magazine Read it – thoroughly – and then pass it on to another. Adbusters has endorsed the steady state economic before, quoting Herman Daly and citing the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy as well – but this is a full, cover-to-cover issue on the growing movement for a new, [...]
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In a steady-state economy the focus is on development versus growth. As Herman Daly puts it, growth refers to “physical scale of the matter/energy throughput that sustains the economic activities of production and consumption of commodities.” In other words, growth is the increasing of production and consumption of goods and services. This is a quantitative [...]
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