The Economics of Enough Quotes

“Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

“How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experience. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

“Growth alone is not enough for a good society—but neither is happiness alone.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

“It is profoundly inequitable that the difficult starting point is largely the result of actions by the developed nations, but the numbers on population and future emissions are such that a credible response cannot come from the rich countries alone.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

“There would certainly be wide agreement that more than 4 billion of the world’s 7 billion people are very far from having enough. At least 2 billion do not have enough to eat, do not have adequate housing and water, are unable to educate their children or afford health care. These “bottom of the pyramid” billions can hardly be considered greedy when they aspire to be consumers and buy the global brands that signal joining the modern economic world.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

“The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse gases generally do not pay. Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. The evidence on the seriousness of the risks from inaction or delayed action is now overwhelming. We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. The problem and the response must be a collaboration on a global scale.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

“But until we decide what “enough” means, we’ll never know whether we’ve won or not; we’ll never be happy.”
― Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters