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| From Lounsbury's Book Review of The New Economics, A Manifesto by Steve Keen |
The "more correct" view, on the right, shows the economy at the center of things.
That's it, yeah.
I'd put it into words like this:
If the economy is not sustainable, the society cannot be sustained.
If the society is not sustainable, the environment cannot be sustained.
But I want to change the word "society" to "civilization". Because civilization follows the economy up, and civilization follows the economy down.
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for reference
In Carroll Quigley's The Evolution of Civilization
on page 64 (or 63 of 425 in the PDF)
Quigley shows a diagram like Lounsbury's "b": three concentric circles.
At the center Quigley has "Humans";
the next larger circle has "Culture";
and the biggest circle has "Natural environment".
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