Ecological Economists

Famous quotes containing the words ecological and/or economists:

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world’s total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)