> ... for every $100 of economic growth, only 60 cents reach the billion poor in the world. This is based on a report from the New Economic Foundation, available here. Clearly this is a decidedly inefficient way of distributing wealth. As they state: “someone is profiting from economic growth, but it is not the world's poor.”
https://gardenearth.blogspot.com/2013/03/lagom-is-good-enough.html
#GunnarRundgren #Lagom #EnoughIsEnough #RobDietz #DanONeill #Economics

> Some households have a larger throughput than others. For proof, there’s no better source than #MaterialWorld, an eye-catching book by photographer #PeterMenzel.. Menzel takes the pulse of typical households in thirty countries by photographing families and their possessions in front of their homes... the Skeen family (from the United States) in front of their 1,600-square-foot suburban house.
https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Rob%20Dietz/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20(1161)/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20-%20Rob%20Dietz.pdf

#EnoughIsEnough by #DonBietz and #DanONeill

> “We manage what we measure” is a cliché often uttered in business boardrooms, but... true. You could also say that we “#mismanage what we #mismeasure.”.. we mismanage the scale of the economy because we’re treating an indicator of its size—#GDP—as if it were a measure of social performance. If we want to achieve a #sustainable and #FairEconomy that provides a high quality of life, it’s crucial to get the measures right.
https://ssir.org/books/excerpts/entry/enough_is_enough
#RobDietz #DanOneill #Enough #PeterDrucker

> “In the sixth century BCE, #LaoTzu.. wrote that the person who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. It has taken us twenty-six centuries.. forget that, and it is high time to relearn it. #RobDietz and #DanONeill provide a compelling case.. an accessible guide.. simple and achievable steps”
#MollyScottCato.. author of #EnvironmentAndEconomy on #EnoughIsEnough
https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Rob%20Dietz/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20(1161)/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20-%20Rob%20Dietz.pdf
#Enoughness #知足 #足るを知る #老子

> For the Hebrews in the wilderness the #MannaEconomy was design#ed with “enough” as a built-in feature. Our economy does not have that automatic regulation. We have to recognize the value of enough and build it into our economic institutions and culture...
#HermanDaly in the Foreword to #EnoughIsEnough by #RobDietz and #DanONeill

_#EnoughIsEnough_ by #RobDietz and #DanONeill with a Foreword by #HermanDaly. These are names I've been seeing in #NaomiKlein's #ThisChangesEverything and #KoheiSaito's book on the #Anthropocene. It feels like Fate to stumble on a whole book about #Enoughness just when it's been preoccupying me more than usual since last night...
#知足 #足るを知る #老子46 #LaoTzu46 https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Rob%20Dietz/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20(1161)/Enough%20Is%20Enough%20-%20Rob%20Dietz.pdf