While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.