“The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.” FirstsDesireNumbersResourcesEconomicsInfiniteGoodsChasingFiniteFinite Number Author:Thomas Sowell
“Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.” ThinkingGrowthEconomicPlanetsResourcesEconomicsInfiniteMadEnvironmentalEconomistFiniteMadmenEnvironmentalist Author:David Attenborough
“Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.” WorldRealityGrowthEconomicModernTaughtWorshipEconomicsUltimateSickContrastContinentsUnitsFiniteEconomic GrowthConsumingDisconnectedUnreality Author:Dervla Murphy
“There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.” UsedTheoryResourcesEconomicsShockingFinite Author:Jeremy Grantham
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” WorldBelieveFunGrowthForeverGoes OnEconomicsMadPopulationEconomistFiniteMadmenPlanet EarthCrazy PeopleMad MenPopulation GrowthOverpopulationBanks And MoneyExponential GrowthPopulation Problem Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality” IfsIdeasFactsRealityWould BeGrowthBusinessEconomicPlanetsTheoryFineEconomicsInfiniteManagementFiniteEconomic GrowthInconvenientEconomic TheoryDandy Author:George Monbiot