Mary be contrary: why does your garden have to grow at all?

James Murphy

There is a growth of the cultural thought that continual economic growth is bad for people individually and as a society.

It's bad for the planet and bad for our souls, so has GDP growth had its day as a useful metric, asks James Murphy.

Imagine, in a short while from now, the views of a certain school of economists - views perfectly conventional in their day - have become so repellent that its leading practitioners have trouble finding platforms on university campuses. In the movie Wall Street,Gordon Gekko was notorious for his declaration that 'Greed is good'. Are we now entering an age when an economist or a business leader will be pelted with an equally large number...

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