Showing posts with label steady state economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steady state economy. Show all posts
29 May 2012

Austerity Breeds Outrage

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Two reports came out on 21st May which was also, incidentally, my birthday. The first was the report of the Environmental Audit Committee...
24 May 2011

If You Can't Beat 'em Laugh at 'em

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For those readers who aren't already aware of it I should point you in the direction of CASSE, the Center for the Study of a Steady Stat...
5 April 2011

Elite's Marginal Productivity Challenged by Nobel Renegade

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In spite of the fact that he is clearly right, and that he is in the sort of position where holding critical views could have some impact, I...
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25 November 2010

The Happiness Crusade

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The demonstration I was on yesterday in Cardiff was so much fun it went on all night. If you are a tweeter you can support the protest by se...
17 June 2010

Celebrating Zero Growth

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I spent yesterday evening at the launch of the second Zero Carbon Britain report, a second edition of the report again produced by the Cent...
4 June 2010

The Ideology of the Cancer Cell

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It is hard to question the prevailing view that we are on the brink of an even more serious economic collapse than the one we squeaked throu...
3 April 2009

The Paradox of Thrift

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It was Keynes's view that 'Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually th...
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31 December 2008

Is this the year of the steady state?

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The economy has ceased to grow, in fact it has begun to shrink. Interest rates are now at marginal levels and may soon drop to 0%. Combine t...
7 November 2008

Capitalist rollercoaster

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Generally in economics 'long-term trends' are anything but. I was recently in a supervision session with a colleague who was describ...
16 October 2008

Hero or Heroin

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I'm sure Gordon Brown was secretly delighted to have been compared with Flash Gordon at a recent press conference. Given his recent shad...
3 January 2007

Growth or Balance? Cowboy or Spaceman?

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The major objective of the economy as it works now is to grow, and the more it grows the happier the politicians are. Green economists would...
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