Quotations from Berlin

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

ET in a nutshell...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

Indeed.

It comes down to  the quality, rather than the quantity, of production and hence to the denominator of GDP.

£, $ and € just don't cut it IMHO as a unit of measure: an energy unit, on the other hand, just might.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

Sustainability is part of it, and having deconstructed the standard metrics of Growth^TM is part of it. But I also sense a deeper undercurrent of dissent from the mantra that having more toys makes your playtime better. And an understanding that, in The West^TM at least, Growth^TM is in the business of producing more toys, not a better coverage of the necessaries of life.

We do not applaud the efforts of the squirrel to keep abreast of the wheel that is propelled by his own efforts.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.