“Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.”

“Should continual economic growth be the predominant model, the highest purpose of human civilization? Continual growth is one characteristic of cancer that eventually destroys the host.”

“What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.”

“The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.”

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

“This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.”