A fellow citizen sent me an article; one that I feel everyone should read. New York Times columnist and writer of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman (not to be confused with Benjamin Friedman) recently wrote about our dire times and what Paul Gilding calls “The Great Disruption” – “when both Mother [...]
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As we continue to fuel our all-important economic growth we begin to realize more and more that it has done all the good it can for us. In fact, it has started to become uneconomic growth; a growth that actually costs us natural capital (resources) and man-made capital (products). The costs of growth now outweigh the benefits. [...]
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The Steady State Economy requires a shift in our focus as a culture, but what policies are actually developed and what are the fundamentals of this new paradigm? There are three main parts to a steady state economy: sustainable scale, fair distribution, and efficient allocation. The following are the definitions given by the Center for [...]
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