Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.