"Generation after generation thinks it needs only another ten or twenty percent more income to be perfectly happy... In the end, the triumph of economic growth is not a triumph of humanity over material wants; rather, it is the triumph of material wants over humanity."
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, Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective (1996) p. 154.
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