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Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes: Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
         

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.


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Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
         



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