"growth, which is" the goal of our government, Angela Merkel said in her inaugural speech as chancellor in the 17 German Bundestag.
everything is equated with growth. Growth creates jobs, generates wealth growth, milk and honey permanent bliss ...
This contrasts with the reality.
Let us look at the United States to the 2010 economic growth of 2.6% added.
The wage rate (percentage of wages and salaries in GDP) is only 43%.
The (unvarnished) Unemployment has increased this to 18%. The private household debt as big as ever. Poverty as bad as ever.
remained on the track the infrastructure works, social security, health care, internal security, public schools, libraries.
Where's the growth gone?
These are only thing constantly for 20 years, rising property income and corporate income. They do now in the U.S. account for 57% of GDP. Current growth is the returns on financial due.
power as a growth concept make sense?
Is a measure of the prosperity and efficiency of a society?
is rated a useful currency unit to its size?
If we measure growth based on increasing the capacity in energy within a year (in Joules) would would have a real, general economic, physical size for growth. (See my blog here )
equal chance this is even the physical concept of power (energy per second, dw / dt, W).
It would clearly be seen whether the company is behaving sustainably or not. Exploitation, waste and decay would impact negatively on the growth immediately.
Why not? The National
term growth primarily serves those who profit from it, the recipients of property income, lots of power.
Anyone looking for a comprehensive and scientific justification of this assertion, for example, here 'll find it at Hagen Genreiths excellent blog.
Who wants to know more about where all influence our market economy is taken and with what effects this may read in Dr. Stefan Eicher blog.
property income are thus the target of economic policy. Not the rising prosperity for all but only for the few. The term growth is busy but so positive that everyone believes that this could only be good for him.
this growth concept everything is sacrificed. Morality, ethics, education, environment, sustainability, justice, social peace, peaceful foreign relations, health and happiness of the people.
All that is really a cultural destination and was enshrined in most constitutions.
The growth justified capitalism is not the source but the antagonist of all these efforts. The opposite of the constitutions of democratic states set basic laws. Economists, bankers and politicians promote the growth as a remedy, therefore, contrary to this Constitution.
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