Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
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based on the needs of people rather than business.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
A few examples include: Greed is good. Maximizing pleasure from consumption is the goal. A billion acts of selfishness will lead to a prosperous society. The social duty of business is just to maximize its profits. There’s no such thing as society, only individuals—that was Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote. Markets are efficient; other institutions
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University of Massachusetts economist James Boyce, Indian environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, and others, this work has found that income and human well-being expand when degraded land, water, and ecosystems are cleaned up and repurposed by the people who live on and around them.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
The myths of “growth is good” and “full employment” established themselves as key values. These dovetailed nicely with the gospel of “full consumption,” which preached that leisure is a commodity to be consumed rather than free time to be enjoyed. For the past half century, full employment has meant more consumers with more “disposable income.” Thi
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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
― E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered