Conversation

MANFRED MAX-NEEF:

One, the economy is to serve the people and not the [reverse].

Two, development is about people and not about objects.

Three, growth is not the same as development, and development does not necessarily require growth.

Four, no economy is possible in the absence of ecosystem services.

Five, the economy is a subsystem of... the biosphere, hence permanent growth is impossible.

...no economic interest, under no circumstance, can be above the reverence of life.