Daniel

“the economic pain gripping the United States will not actually be the fault of immigrants — or China, Muslims, environmentalists, or even terrorists. Nor is the essential problem Big Government: As we have seen, the desperate effort to inflate government spending and power is more of an effect than a cause of the nation’s predicament.”
― Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

“Urbanization, the industrialization of food systems, and the building of highways may have contributed to GDP over the short term, but they have created societal vulnerability over the longer term. In a world of Peak Oil, scarce fresh water, unstable currencies, changing climate, and declining trade, true “development” may require implementation of policies at odds with — sometimes the very reverse of — those of recent decades.”
― Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

“Of all the things that human beings make and do for each other, it is the unquantifiable ones that contribute most to human happiness.”
― Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

“Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness