ABSTRACT
The linking of economics, big business and the political system into an apparently impenetrable, seamless institutional process is central to the world plan. It provides growthism with one of its greatest assets, the ability to present itself as a rational system of balance, when it manifestly operates as the opposite, in the short term as well as the long term. A much better description of the growthist economic system than equilibrium theory is provided by the non-profit entrepreneur and commons scholar Peter Barnes, who compares our present economic world order to the software running a computer. The algorithms are maximize return to capital, distribute property income on a per-share basis, and the price of nature equals zero. The complete disregard for human wellbeing displayed by growthist economics is demonstrated by the bizarre portrait of the human subject at its core.
