“The modern private enterprise system ingeniously employs the human urges of greed and envy as its motive power. . . . Greed and envy demand continuous and limitless economic growth of a material kind, without proper regard for conservation, and this type of growth cannot possibly fit into a finite environment.”
Quote by Ernst F. Schumacher
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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