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SUMMARY:A dialogue with Dan O'Neill on the Steady-State Economy
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 37527\nVillagers use the promo code \"villagevan341\" to register for 
 only $5!\nThe steady-state economy: What does it look like? Do we wan
 t it? How do we get there? \nThe pure environmental case for adoptin
 g a steady-state economy a policy goal, seems intuitive and persuasive
 , but that is not likely to be enough for many of us.\nEqually intuiti
 ve, unfortunately, is a concern that reaching that goal may involv
 e significant sacrifices in terms of human well-being. The well-being 
 of our own generation and that of the generation immediately following
  us, is of particular concern. In the transition to a steady-state eco
 nomy, we may legitimately fear that we would undergo, very rapidly, dr
 amatic and uncomfortable changes associated with \"withdrawal\" from t
 he \"drug\" of economic \"growth\". But would the generations that fol
 low not benefit sufficiently to warrant us facing down our fears, here
  and now?\nIs more economic growth (of the \"business as usual\" kind)
  good or bad for our future quality of life ? Is it really feasible fo
 r the economy grow in a qualitatively-better way, but still grow as ra
 pidly as we are used to expecting (i.e. 3% annual increase in GDP) ? I
 f \"business as usual\" growth is beginning to get us into trouble, an
 d more qualitatively-selective growth is both harder to accomplish and
  likely to be slower, might it still be preferable to choose a slower-
 growth / higher quality strategy ?  And how much slower ?   \nEntre
 preneurs typically, have confidence that their ventures will succeed. 
 Most serious entrepreneurs expect that their efforts will succeed prec
 isely because those efforts address worthwhile human desires. If offer
 ing a new product or service, the entrepreneurial business hopes that 
 the new offering will enrich life. If offering a variant of an existin
 g product or service, the hope might be that it will succeed in produc
 ing or distributing a better version of a known offering, in a smarter
  way.   \nIs the kind of improvement-in-quality-of-life so closely a
 ssociated with smart, serious and successful entrepreneurship, compati
 ble with a new-style economy in which we consciously strive to contain
  and ultimately eliminate, growth in absolute material throughput ?\nT
 hese are big, important questions, in a big, truly essential conversat
 ion. A good starting point, is to put the usual assumption that \"if s
 ome is good, more is [always] better\",  under a critical microscope.
   In particular, we may want to look at a case where \"some may have 
 been good in the past and more may have been better for a while afte
 r that, but more is no longer better\".\nSteady-state economic think
 ing is not new. It is arguably as old as economics itself.  It went t
 hrough a phase of gaining momentum in the 1970s, under the influence o
 f E.F. Schumacher and Herman Daly, amongst others. It has gained fresh
  momentum again, since the 2008-09 financial crisis, because mainstrea
 m, GDP-growth-oriented  economics, has seemed so adrift and moribund.
     \nDan O'Neill , along with Josh Farley, Brian Czech and Rob Di
 etz, is prominent amongst the latest generation of ecological economis
 ts.   Come and join the conversation !\n \n\nFor more information v
 isit http://villagevancouver.org/events/a-dialogue-with-dan-o-neill-on
 -the-steady-state-economy
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CATEGORIES:"ecological economics", steady-state
LOCATION:Strut Studios
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