While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces. - Herman E. Daly

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Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum. ' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early. ' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.

Herman E. Daly

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

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There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

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We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

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Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

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Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth. . . . Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

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