<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><b class="">Excerpt :</b> "While economists with Nobel Prizes and similar accomplishments view the future in terms of ever expanding consumption with no compunction, a small but growing group within the profession have begun to explore alternative visions of a life that is not exclusively dependent on terminal materialism. Some of their book titles suggest the tack they are taking: The Joyless Economy (Scitovsky, 1976; Small is Beautiful ( Schumaker, 1975); The Household Economy (Burns, 1977); Muddling Toward Frugality (Johnson, 1978); The Sane Alternative (Robertson, 1979); The Conserver Society (Valskalis et al, 1979. From a perspective of ultimate survival, it seems quite clear that the direction pioneered by the maverick economists is the only sane one."</div><div class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default">p. 234 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton. The meaning of things: Domestic symbols of the self. Cambridge University Press 1981, reprinted 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992</div></body></html>