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The Limits of Growth
The limits of growth in 1970s sold 30 million copies. Since then the global economy has gone in an enormous hockey stick. I studied economics at university because I wanted to learn the mother tongue of public policy. The mainstream syllabus does not invite them. It starts with the market of supply and demand, which puts price at the center of our vision. That's a very political move. Why are we jumping to the market immediately? Because it tells us that humanity is rationally economic man. We dominate over nature. And it tells us implicitly that growth is the goal.