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Introduction
There is general agreement that the current economic system is broken - but no agreement on how we ought to fix it.
Apart from any other issue, our current economic system relies on continual growth of physical systems in the context of a finite world. We know this is impossible, but we just choose to ignore the fact. The widely publicised report, The Limits to Growth, published in 1972, pointed this out, even if we had managed to ignore the obvious up to that point.
One of the difficulties of talking about this area is that (like religion) everyone thinks they understand the subject and are qualified to give their opinion; also (and also like religion) many experts disagree fundamentally with each other. So we need to tread carefully here
Also of interest...
- Decoupling - How to think about Green Growth: "At the heart of current environmental debates is a crucial question: is economic growth possible without environmental destruction?" - an article published by Aeon.
- Neoliberal Economics: "The road to freedom or authoritarianism?" - an article published by NPR.
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