"Current economic growth has uncoupled itself from the world and has become irrelevant. Worse, it has become a blind g…"

"We have lived for 200 years in a growth economy. In this time we have come to believe that all our major economic ill…"

"It is imaginable that someday we will discover how to create materials from nothing, how to achieve perpetual motion,…"

"Economic logic requires that we maximize the productivity of the limiting factor in the short run, and invest in incr…"

"I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I’m not satisfied un…"

"The optimal scale of the economy is smaller, the greater (a) the degree of complementarity between natural and man-ma…"

"Even if we can never quantify [satisfaction or happiness]... as precisely as we currently quantify GNP,... perhaps it…"

"The cosmology of scientific materialism … considers the cosmos an absurd accident, and life within it to be no more t…"

"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse."

"Economists have focused too much on the economy’s circulatory system and have neglected to study its digestive tract.…"