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Economic Growth - can we ever have enough?

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Are You Saying People Can Never Invent Anything Again?

Diane Coil is Bennett Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge. She challenges mainstream economists who say we've hit the ceiling on growth. But she says there are many ways in which you can improve your health services without having growth. So no, I don't think there's a limit because people are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you?

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