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Why liberals should embrace the Steady State Economy

By Helen Flynn | Fri 9th December 2016 - 11:55 am

One of the saddest things about the lurch to extremism and the right wing of the political spectrum over the past few years—and especially these last few months—has been that attention has been taken away from the significant problems with capitalism and its reliance on continued growth that the 2008 crash had exposed.

The Classical Economists, in particular Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, had already theorised centuries ago that growth could not go on forever and that eventually states would enter the condition of being a “stationary state”. John Stuart Mill wrote that the “increase of wealth is not boundless….the …

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