20th century Quote by Phil Harding

“Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of…

— Ivan Illich

“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing…

— Craig Dilworth

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

— Mark Lynas

“... economic growth is driven by supply factors such as improved technologies and access to more or better resources.”

— Campbell McConnell

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

— John W. Snow

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

— Hilary Benn

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.

— Richard Heinberg

Our social model means economic growth all too often involves concentrating wealth produced by the many into the bank accounts of the few, without…

— Owen Jones

Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that…

— Julian Simon

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

— David Korten

In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would…

— Lewis Mumford