Incites

The Objective of Economic Policy

“The objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.”

— Kenneth Boulding

Just Make It Die Out Quietly…

“The drive of capitalism is that of an auto-reproduction toward its perpetuation. Capitalism is thus interminable. No matter how futile and harmful it is, it does not end. Even if our thought changes, or the state regulates it, it does not end. Capitalism is not a product of…

…the most potent antidote to cynicism…

“Life, like the universe itself, tolerates no stasis — in the absence of growth, decay usurps the order. Like all forms of destruction, cynicism is infinitely easier and lazier than construction. There is nothing more difficult yet more gratifying in our society…

Community is the smallest unit of health…

“I believe that the community — in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures — is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.”

— Wendell Berry

The people…

The people has traditionally been a unitary conception. The population, of course, is characterized by all kinds of differences, but the people reduces that diversity to a unity and makes of the population a single identity: “the people” is one. The multitude, in contrast, is many. The multitude is…

I object to violence because…

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

— Gandhi

Global Complexity…

“Global systems can be viewed as interdependent, as self-organizing and as possessing emergent properties. I suggest that we can examine a range of non-linear, mobile and unpredictable ‘global hybrids’ always on the ‘edge of chaos’.”

— John Urry, “Global Complexity”, p…

Courage

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.

— Anais Nin

Differentiations become…

“Differentiations become generalities from which other differentiations emerge.

In other words, development is an open-ended process, which creates complexity and diversity, because multiplied generalities are sources of multiplied differentiations — some…