Economics Quotes by Wendell Berry

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

— Wendell Berry

“A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.”

— Wendell Berry

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

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“The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)”

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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And…

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“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global…

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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable…

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A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words,…

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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

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There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for…

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People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people…

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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy…

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“For the sake of “job creation,” in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come…

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Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most…

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“That we live now in an economy that is not sustainable is not the fault only of a few mongers of power…

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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've…

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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As…

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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in…

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A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as…

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“Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a…

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The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic…

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“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for…

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“Virtually all of us now share with the most powerful industrialists their remoteness from actual experience of the actual world. Like them,…

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And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.…

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“It has become increasingly clear that the way we farm affects the local community, and that the economy of the local community…

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The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood…

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“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the…

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“When nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to…

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“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult…

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“The “food system,” according to Professor Shaw, now uses 16.5 percent of all energy used in the United States. This 16.5 percent…

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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess…

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We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy…

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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the…

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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality.…

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If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean…

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The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,…

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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected…

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For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because…

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