Pfade in die Postwachstumsgesellschaft
I hate to say I told you so, and could be too dead to do so, so I’ll tell you in advance: One decade soon, environmental problems will stop tracking with GDP. But the reasons? Well, they probably aren’t what you think, especially if you’ve been drinking the green Kool-Aid. …
What does business look like in a steady state economy? I’m often asked whether or not a steady state economy would somehow lead to the stagnation of free enterprise. Yet all around us today, we’re witnessing the flourishing of ‘social enterprise,’ a business model designed to maximize human and environmental …
A steady state economy is defined by a constant population and a constant stock of physical capital. In a way it is an extension of the demographer’s model of a stationary population to include non living populations of artifacts, with production rates equal to depreciation rates, as well as birth …
Attempts to integrate economics and ecology have been based on one of three strategies: (1) economic imperialism; (2) ecological reductionism; (3) steady-state subsystem. Each strategy begins with the picture of the economy as a subsystem of the finite ecosystem. Thus all three recognize limits to growth. The differences concern the …
On the occasion of the 4th international Degrowth Conference in Leipzig the Blog Postwachstum widened its focus towards the international Degrowth debate and extended its offering by English articles from all over the world. From now on, the editors of Blog Postwachstum at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) …
Carey King fasst in einem Blogeintrag Herman Daly’s Vorschläge für die Transformation zu einer Steady-State-Ökonomie zusammen. Daly stellte sie kürzlich auf der Tagung der American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) vor. Unter anderem schlägt Daly vor: Zertifikatehandel für nicht-erneuerbare Ressourcen, höhere Besteuerung des Ressourcenverbrauchs statt der Besteuerung von …