"Once we have replaced the basic premise of “more is better” with the much sounder axiom that “enough is best,” the social and technical problems of moving to a steady state become solvable, perhaps even trivial."
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Herman E. Daly
Herman Edward Daly (July 21, 1938 – October 28, 2022) was an American ecological economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park.
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