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| Tekijä: | Lux, K. |
| Otsikko: | The failure of the profit motive |
| Lehti: | Ecological Economics
2003 : FEB, VOL. 44:1, p. 1-10 |
| Asiasana: | PROFIT GROWTH ECONOMICS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | E.F. Schumacher used the phrase, 'the failure of the modern experiment'. By modern experiment he meant two interrelated things. In its 300-year or so duration, modernity occupies an eye blink of time in the vast span of millennia of human history. Secondly, it is an experiment because this is the first time in this vast history that a society attempted to live without motives and principles that were higher than the material or economic, that is, without some form of the transcendental. Schumacher proposed that this experiment is a failure because in its brief history modern society is well on its way to destroying both the natural and the social world. The absence of higher motives or principles means that another organizing and motivational principle takes its place. |
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