Named for Herman Daly, the champion of steady-state economics, The Daly News was published online by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) for nearly a decade starting in 2010. With Daly, Brian Czech, and Brent Blackwelder as leading contributors, The Daly News served as the go-to source for news and opinion on limits to growth, degrowth, and the steady state economy.
The Daly News authors came at their topics from philosophical, ecological, economic, historical, political, and even theological angles. They used every tenor from sober policy prescriptions to political opining to hyperbolic parody. They covered the terrain of political economy from local to global. Of the 304 articles to grace the pages of The Daly News, thirty-three of the best are brought back to life in this book.
Best of The Daly News will give readers a good idea of the scope of steady state economics and “steady statesmanship.” This highly accessible book of essays handles huge topics with clarity and concision. Anyone concerned with limits to growth, ecological economics, environmental sustainability, national security, and international politics will find something interesting in Best of The Daly News.
Table of Content
Preface……………………………………………………………………………………..v
Part I: Herman Daly…………………………………………………………………..1
Wealth, Illth, and Net Welfare……………………………………………………….3
Fitting the Name to the Named……………………………………………………..6
Not Production, Not Consumption, but Transformation……………………10
The Populations Problem……………………………………………………………..13
Cold War Leftovers……………………………………………………………………..18
War and Peace and the Steady State Economy………………………………..23
Growth, Debt, and the World Bank………………………………………………25
Thoughts on Pope Francis’s Laudato si’…………………………………………..29
Part II: Brian Czech…………………………………………………………………33
Limits to Growth—of Stuff, Value, and GDP………………………………….35
Five Myths about Economic Growth…………………………………………….38
Economic Growth: The Missing Link in Environmental Journalism……41
Paul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater………………44
George Will, Doomsday, and the Straw-Man Sighting………………………47
BP: Beyond Probabilities……………………………………………………………..50
Who Moved My “Conservative”?………………………………………………….52
Who Moved Obama’s Win-Win Cheese?………………………………………..54
Part III: Brent Blackwelder………………………………………………………..57=
Time to Stop Worshipping Economic Growth…………………………………59
Deceptionomics………………………………………………………………………..62
Food and Agriculture in a Steady State Economy…………………………….65
Elect More Women: Prerequisite for a Sustainable Economy…………….67
The Next President’s Inaugural Speech (If Only…)………………………….70
Part IV: Rob Dietz…………………………………………………………………..73
Breathing Room Economics…………………………………………………………75
Storage Nation………………………………………………………………………….79
Pulling Back the Curtain on Economic Growth’s Magic Act……………..82
The Influence of Donella Meadows and Limits to Growth…………………..85
Hooray for the Underdog……………………………………………………………88
Part V: James Magnus-Johnston………………………………………………..91
Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever?……………………….93
What About Innovating Beyond the Growth Trap?………………………….96
A Steady-State Defense of Arts and Culture…………………………………..99
Transition Winnipeg Embraces the Steady State Economy………………102
Part VI: Eric Zencey………………………………………………………………105
Two Schools and the Path to the Steady State Economy………………….107
China’s Infinite-Growth Haze……………………………………………………..111
Slumlord Nation………………………………………………………………………114
About the author
Brian Czech is the founding president of CASSE and signed on as Executive Director in 2018. Czech served as a conservation biologist in the headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017 and as a visiting professor of natural resource economics in Virginia Tech’s National Capitol Region during most of that period. He is the author of several books including Supply Shock, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, and The Endangered Species Act, as well as over 50 academic journal articles. Czech is a frequent speaker, commentator, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and The Daly News, a blog focused on the steady state economy. He has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Czech is a hunter, fisherman, vegetable grower, and general hand.
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