New Economists Have Different View

There’s an underlying fallacy in the thinking of old-school economists who pin our future to continued economic growth. ... there is a whole new breed of economists - ecological economists. Both words come from the same Greek root - oikos, Greek for household.

Economics is the management of the household; ecology is the study of household management. Our task is to define what we mean by sustainability - i.e., keeping the household in good repair now and long into the future.

... Ecological economists are working with ecologists, conservation biologists, geographers, land use planners, and many other social and natural scientists.