Category Archives: Herman Daly

Right Wing or Left Wing – There Are Still No Free Lunches

Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Deficit spending, Ecological Economics, Economics, Environment, Federal Debt, First Law of Economics, Future generations, Global Change, Green New Deal, Herman Daly, Inequality, Laffer Curve, Modern Monetary Theory, Opinion, Ponzi scheme, Rent Seeking, Taxes, Trump
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Readers of Stirring the Pot know that I am deeply concerned about the issues of global climate change and inequality in the United States.  Climate change, or the larger issue of global change, is an existential threat to modern human civilization.  Inequality strikes at the very heart of the American ideal of “liberty and justice […]

The Most Important Economist You Probably Have Never Heard About

Book Reviews, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Economics, Growth, Happiness, Herman Daly, Inequality, Nature, Opinion, Technology, Values
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Economists become famous by winning the Nobel Prize (technically the Swedish National Bank’s Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) or becoming public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith or Paul Krugman.  But economists do not have to be famous to be important.  Significant contributions come in many guises. The most important economist you […]