READ THE ENTIRE JANE JACOBS INTERVIEW ON THE NEW ECONOMY
Here’s a salient quote:
A lot of the production work, design work, economic work that is being done now has a much higher proportion of what we call human capital in it and a much lower proportion of natural resources and other materials in it than in the past. And that is an important change that is very promising for sustainable economies because, after all, human capital – the experience, the skills, the inspiration, the imagination that goes into these things – is not a resource that is subject to the laws of diminishing returns. The more human capital is used, the more it grows.
