Daniel

“the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent vs. 12.8 per cent).”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

“The end of economic growth does not necessarily mean we’ve reached the end of qualitative improvements in human life.”
― Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

“Of all the things that human beings make and do for each other, it is the unquantifiable ones that contribute most to human happiness.”
― Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

“Urbanization, the industrialization of food systems, and the building of highways may have contributed to GDP over the short term, but they have created societal vulnerability over the longer term. In a world of Peak Oil, scarce fresh water, unstable currencies, changing climate, and declining trade, true “development” may require implementation of policies at odds with — sometimes the very reverse of — those of recent decades.”
― Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality