Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.