Considers Quote by Jeremy Grantham

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

— Stephenie Meyer

“An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.”

— Bryant McGill

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

— Milton Friedman

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

— E. F. Schumacher

Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to…

— Kurt Bills

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived…

— George Monbiot

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

— William Stanley Jevons

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

— Bernard Crick

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

— Michael Ruppert

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have…

— Sir John Richard Hicks