24.4 Experiment with measuring different types of growth

Our economy is dependent upon continuous growth just to keep going. Stagnation is New Magna Carta Mediumdangerous. If prices drop and demand collapses, everything shuts down and everyone loses. So, we do everything we can to stay in growth. That is fine in principle. Living things want to grow. But growth must be healthy and sustainable. We define growth as ever-increasing consumption of resources, population and asset price bubbles. Only if we succeed in putting a financial value on family, security, freedom, consciousness, experience, community and health can we measure healthy growth.