End of economic growth - message of hope!
31/01/08 17:12 Filed in: Villager's
News
Here's an interesting opinion piece with a view
of our economic future quite divergent from the
mainstream: http://candobetter.org/node/305
"The end of economic growth is a message of hope"
In this lecture Josh Farley tells us that we can't sell the Steady State economic model if we preach gloom and sacrifice. "Martin Luther King would have gotten no-where if he had given an "I have a Nightmare" speech! Farley demonstrates that it is we who have the positive message and that it will be the ideologues of classical economics who will have to purvey gloom and doom once it is apparent to all that there are no more cookies in the jar.
"The end of economic growth is a message of hope"
In this lecture Josh Farley tells us that we can't sell the Steady State economic model if we preach gloom and sacrifice. "Martin Luther King would have gotten no-where if he had given an "I have a Nightmare" speech! Farley demonstrates that it is we who have the positive message and that it will be the ideologues of classical economics who will have to purvey gloom and doom once it is apparent to all that there are no more cookies in the jar.