Daniel

“the economic pain gripping the United States will not actually be the fault of immigrants — or China, Muslims, environmentalists, or even terrorists. Nor is the essential problem Big Government: As we have seen, the desperate effort to inflate government spending and power is more of an effect than a cause of the nation’s predicament.”
― Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

“Despite their economic advantages, specialization and globalization in some ways reduce resilience — a quality that is essential to our adapting to the end of growth.”
― Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

“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

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins