ABSTRACT
The dominant economic world view is at present profoundly profit oriented and is increasingly rooted in the ubiquitous and rapidly progressing phenomenon called globalization. The growth ethic is normally a dominantly held central credo for an “apostle of economic health,” whether that person is in fact an economist or simply one of the many practical people somehow doing business in modern society. The Limits to Growth (LTG) study modeled the endowments and flows of world resources in an attempt to estimate when limits to the expansion of humans and their artifacts might be experienced. Certainly, the growth ethic has profound economic implications. It is also a political strategy to the point of defining an entire policy agenda. The growing “literature of change,” which began to emerge some 30 years ago, sought first to question and then perhaps ultimately to adjust, reform, or revolutionize the dominant notion of industrialism.
