In Defense of a Steady‐State Economy

Daly, Herman E.

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“…This is especially true of educational systems, which today fail to inform most people of how the world works and thus perpetuate a vast culture gap [54]. The academic challenge is especially great for economists, who could help set the background for avoiding collapse by designing steady-state economic systems [107,134,143], and along the way destroying fables such as 'growth can continue forever if it's in service industries', or 'technological innovation will save us'. Issues such as the importance of comparative advantage under current global circumstances [144], the development of new models that better reflect the irrational behaviour of individuals and groups [145], reduction of the worship of 'free' markets that infests the discipline, and tasks such as making information more symmetrical, moving towards sustainability and enhancing equity (including redistribution) all require re-examination.…”

Section: The Need For Rapid Social/political Changementioning

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Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

2013

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Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

2013

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“…Ecological economists reject the smoothness of transitions to a steady state implied by neoclassical growth models. However, there has been relatively little concrete macroeconomic theorizing on the growth-environment nexus (notable exceptions are Barker et al, 2012, Daly, 1973, Harris and Goodwin, 2003, Victor, 2011. Few studies have explored the implications of a zero growth economy; recently, Victor (2008), Jackson (2009, and Jackson and Victor (2011) have begun to explore the structural drivers of growth and the manner in which a zero-growth economy could function, questions also prominent in the "degrowth" movement (Martinez-Alier et al 2010;Schneider et al 2011).…”

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Ecological macroeconomics: An application to climate change

Rezai

Taylor

Mechler

2013

Ecological Economics

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Ecological Economics has not paid sufficient attention to the macroeconomic level both in terms of theory and modelling. Yet, key topics debated in the field of Ecological Economics such as sustainable consumption, reduction in working time, the degrowth debate, the energy-exergy link, and the rebound effect require a wholistic and macro perspective. While this deficiency has been identified before and Keynesian economics has been generally suggested as a potent vehicle to establish economic system's thinking, very little concrete theorizing and practical suggestions have been put forward. We give further credence to this suggestion and demonstrate the value of tackling key concerns of Ecological Economics within a Keynesian growth framework. Contextualized by an application to climate change we suggest that policy relevant recommendations need to be based on a consistent view of the macroeconomy. We end with laying out key building blocks for a Keynesian model framework for an Ecological Macroeconomics.

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“…Levels of consumption in developed nations are decreasingly sustainable on a limited earth [65][66][67][68]. In the next decades, US per capita material and energy consumption needs to be scaled down to a terrestrial scale [66,68,[69][70][71]. Since US health care already comprises a significant proportion of GDP, if the economy is to be scaled down, so must health care [72,73].…”

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What Moral Distress in Nursing History Could Suggest about the Future of Health Care

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

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The concept of moral distress was defined in 1984 as (a) the psychological distress of (b) being in a situation in which one is constrained from acting (c) on what one knows to be right. A substantial literature on the subject has developed, primarily in nursing ethics. The aforementioned elements of distress are applied here to areas of clinical and organizational significance: (a) distress from causing intimate pain during care of the dying, (b) constraints stemming from proximate and background challenges of health care organizations, and (c) changing perspectives on therapeutic technologies derived from global environmental perspectives. Although moral distress may be increasing in clinical settings, nursing advocates are developing positive ways to cope with it that can help clinicians in general. IntroductionAfter its first use in nursing over 30 years ago, the concept of moral distress has proven applicable to a growing range of problematic situations. This essay outlines a few motifs in the development of the concept in nursing ethics and then considers some current applications of the concept. Starting with the bedside care of the dying, it sets moral distress in successively wider contexts, concluding with some morally problematic global environmental challenges that health care services will need to address during the next decades.

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In Defense of a Steady‐State Economy

Cited by 98 publications

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Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

Ecological macroeconomics: An application to climate change

What Moral Distress in Nursing History Could Suggest about the Future of Health Care

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