“If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.” IfsHumansUseScienceSocialGrowthGrowingProgressTreeLogicFoundationInventionEnginesSteamAdjustingHuman ThoughtSteam EnginesGrowing Things Book:Lo! Source: Lo!
“Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?” WantKindWholeProblemFacesGrowthEconomyEconomicDependsInventionTemptationConsumersMechanismSeductionNoveltyEconomic Growth Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to financialized businesses that do not invest in the areas that will lead to future growth or the invention of useful new products.” ShouldIdeasRunningValuesGrowthCompanyProductsTheoryBenefitsAreasInventionDestructiveShareholdersNew ProductsFuture GrowthShareholder Value Author:Mariana Mazzucato