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Thomas L. Hutcheson's avatar

We need to make growth sustainable by taxing negative externalities. There is no intrinsic conflict.

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M. D. Robertson's avatar

"The poll suggests that Americans value a clean environment, but not at the expense of prosperity. At the ballot box, dynamism is likely to be far more successful than stasis." That seems to have proven correct, at the national level at least.

In my work I've focused on redirecting the wealth generated by new technologies away from oligarchic capture. Here's my response to Juliet Schor's 'Plenitude' (2010), which also addresses growth vs. sustainability:

https://logosandliberty.substack.com/p/eudamoinia-plenitude-and-sustainability

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