Herman E. Daly - Steady Quotes

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The notion of a steady state has meant different things at different times in history. To the traditional or classical economist, the steady state takes the biophysical dimensions of the planet — including population and available resources — as given and adapts technology and tastes to these objective conditions.

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Once we have replaced the basic premise of more is better with the much sounder axiom that enough is best, the social and technical problems of moving to a steady state become solvable, perhaps even trivial.

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