We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

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.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

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.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.