 Every time we produce a Cadillac, we irrevocably destroy an amount of low entropy that could otherwise be used for producing a plow or a spade. In other words, every time we produce a Cadillac, we do it at the cost of decreasing the number of human lives...  Invisible Patterns: Ecology and Wisdom in Business and Profitby Jon L. Hansen, Per A. Christensen - 1995 - 206 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Herman E. Daly, Kenneth N. Townsend - 1992 - 404 pages
...amount of low entropy that could otherwise be used for producing a plow or a spade. In other words, every time we produce a Cadillac, we do it at the...cost of decreasing the number of human lives in the future. Economic development through industrial abundance may be a blessing for us now and for those... | |
 | F. Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, Peter Baccini - 2002 - 256 pages
...irrevocably destroy an amount of low entropy that could otherwise be used for producing a plow or a spade.... [E]very time we produce a Cadillac, we do it at the...cost of decreasing the number of human lives in the future." Unfortunately, Georgescu-Roegen, ( 1993a) has little to suggest in terms of a path to sustainability... | |
 | Brian Czech - 2000 - 226 pages
...capacity in the future. So more economic growth today translates to less economic growth tomorrow; and "every time we produce a Cadillac, we do it at the cost of decreasing the number of human lives tomorrow" (p. 85). Now neoclassical economics has been criticized for its portrayal of the economic... | |
 | Fred Van Dyke - 2008 - 491 pages
...destroy an amount of low entropy that could be used for producing a plow or a spade. In other words, every time we produce a Cadillac, we do it at the...cost of decreasing the number of human lives in the future" (Georgescu-Roegen 1993). Geoergescu-Roegen's view of the economic process leads to radically... | |
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