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“Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.”

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Book:Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It

Source: Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It

“While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places and communities we live in has diminished. Never has so much been decided for so many by so few.”

Book:Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

Source: Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

“I think capitalism is a good thing. The only problem with capitalism is that it destroys the planet, and that it’s based on growth. I mean apart from those two little details it’s got a lot to be said in its favour.”

Book:Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

Source: Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

“The claim that industrial agriculture is the only way of feeding a large population is about as scientific as a belief in Creationism - and far more damaging.”

Book:Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

Source: Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

“Unfortunately, the critics of economics have had a tendency to discuss the whole structure as a tissue of misconceptions. It is a critique that fails. The strength of economics is its considerable, if far from complete, understanding of the flows and comparative advantages that underlie trade, jobs, capital and incomes, and the logic of optimising behaviour, all backed by glittering accomplishment in mathematics. That makes it a powerful analytical instrument, so that just a few misconceptions – such as a failure to understand the informal economy or resource depletion – have leverage: like a baby monkey at the controls of a Ferrari, they can turn it into an instrument with extraordinarily destructive potential. If it were a tissue of errors, it would not be dangerous: it is its 90 percent brilliance which makes it so.”

Book:Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

Source: Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

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