"…The basic nature of the painful transition involves a necessary shift from economies based on maximizing labor productivity (and thereby continually increasing the capital and energy intensity of their industrial production), which heretofore has been based on non-renewable energy, to economies that must now conserve capital, energy and materials and more fully employ their human resources. This shift will require the development of a newly designed, more efficient production system based on renewable resources and managed for sustained-yield productivity.
This is a tall order for today's economists acculturated during a brief period of fossil-fuel-based abundance, which provided the slack that allowed massive Keynesian pump priming and demand-stimulation without instant inflation."
Hazel Henderson
Politics of the Solar Age
Anchor Press, NY 1981 :31
This is a tall order for today's economists acculturated during a brief period of fossil-fuel-based abundence, which provided the slack that allowed massive Keynesian pump priming and demand-stimulation without instant inflation."
Hazel Henderson, 1981, _Politics of the Solar Age_, Anchor Press, NY, :31 – See more at: http://hopefulvision.blogspot.com/#sthash.ybMhC7M7.dpuf"…The basic nature of the painful transition involves a necessary shift from economics based on maximizing labor productivity (and thereby continually increasing the capital and energy intensity of their industrial production), which heretofore has been based on non-renewable energy, to economics that must now conserve capital, energy and materials and more fully employ their human resources. This shift will require the development of a newly designed, more efficient production system based on renewable resources and managed for sustained-yield productivity.
This is a tall order for today's economists acculturated during a brief period of fossil-fuel-based abundence, which provided the slack that allowed massive Keynesian pump priming and demand-stimulation without instant inflation."
Hazel Henderson, 1981, _Politics of the Solar Age_, Anchor Press, NY, :31 – See more at: http://hopefulvision.blogspot.com/#sthash.ybMhC7M7.dpuf