“What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.” YearsTodaySimpleEconomyChangedEthicsYears AgoIncludingMarket EconomySociety TodayEconomy Today Author:Robert Fripp
“Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.” HumansSimpleEconomyTasteOfficeAimDevotionSacramentsPrudence Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.” MayShowsSimpleEconomyTheoryStandardsConsequenceGainsCreditGravesInstanceConformity Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsTryingStatesFoundTermSimpleEconomyEnvironmentGenerationsEconomicMetsDemandCapacityEnvironmentalHarmGoldenSustainabilityCommerceFuture GenerationReducingBetter Than YouGolden RuleAmends Author:Paul Hawken
“I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansSoulDesireGrowsHuman BeingsSimpleLevelsEconomyGrowingPlanetsSolutionsProfoundDestroyingOur Planet Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.” MeanDoeIndividualSocialSimpleAnswersEconomyLaborDivisionCooperationFree MarketMarket EconomyDivision Of LaborSocial Division Author:Ludwig von Mises