Kenneth Boulding, "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" (1966), in Victor D. Lippit, ed., Radical Political Economy, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. p 362.
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
— Economist
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