Best of The Daly News (eBook)

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