Recent publications have revived interest in Herman Daly’s proposal for a Steady-State Economy. This report by IPRD Research Associate, ecological historian Dr. Richard Smith, argues, that the idea of a steady-state capitalism is based on …

By Dr John McMurtry, New Internationalist (May 2007, Issue 401)
Free markets are regaled as the sole solution to poverty and human development. But the global market is inefficient and life destructive, …

By Dr John McMurtry

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By Dr John McMurtry, Centre for Research on Globalisation
A theological doctrine, like a science, is an organized system of ideas which is intended to make sense of reality in terms of the …

By Dr John McMurtry, Monthly Review, March 2003
The following essay was delivered at a forum entitled “The Assault on Iraq and the War Against Democracy: How Should Canadians Respond” held on …

By Dr John McMurtry, Canadian Social Studies, Volume 36, Number 3, Spring 2002
As Samuel Coleridge long ago advised, suspension of disbelief is the necessary state of mind for a drama to …

By Dr John McMurtry, CCPA Monitor, August 1996
When we think of a society’s “defense system,” we think of its armed forces. We have long been conditioned to do this. The military-industrial …