Brian Czech 
Best of The Daly News [EPUB ebook] 
Selected Essays from the Leading Blog in Steady State Economics, 2010-2018

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

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.