"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's……" — Susan George
"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know."
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37 Quotes by Susan George
Susan George has 37 quotes on this site.
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How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced…
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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they…
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The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
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The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation…
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We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
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As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
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Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions…
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What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development,…
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Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during…
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich…
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