Occupation: Economist Birth: 1957
If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities..
The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around t….
For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures..
Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies.….
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth....
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity pri….
Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to….
The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quali….
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about..
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must..