Well said:
> economists would be
> better concentrating on the fallacy of unlimited economic growth,
> underpinning our entire social, economic and political
> system, rather than
> developing ever better models to predict economic behaviour.
But why blame just the economists for this? Don't we all uncritically
accept economic statistics as indicators of economic growth?
Such statistics guide governments, because they are the basis of govenmental
revenue, as well
as capitalism that is equally dependent on growth.
Ray Thomas, Social Sciences, Open University
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