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What Would it Take to Get to a Steady State Economy?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

Humans live in equilibrium with other species in a finite world. In such a world, there is never really a Steady State. Instead, there is a constant ebb and flow.  For a while, one species may be dominant in an … Continue reading →

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How Resource Limits Lead to Financial Collapse

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Resource limits are invisible, so most people don’t realize that we could possibility be approaching them. In fact, my analysis indicates resource limits are really financial limits, and in fact, we seem to be approaching those limits right now. Many analysts … Continue reading →

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Can we expect the economy to keep growing?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

If we read the financial pages, economic growth seems to be viewed as the “normal” situation to which economies inevitably return. But is it really? If we look back over the past 50 years, or even over the past 100 … Continue reading →

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More Reasons Why We are Reaching Limits to Growth

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

In a recent post, I talked about why we may be reaching Limits to Growth of the type foretold in the 1972 book Limits to Growth. I would like to explain some additional reasons now. In my earlier post, I … Continue reading →

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