Considering the ecological limits and social limits to growth side-by-side, the only conclusion I can make is that the end of capitalism is not only a possibility, but an inevitability. Neither the planet nor the worlds population appear able to support this system much longer, and somethings got to give. It may be years or even a couple decades before we can look back and say for sure that a paradigm shift has occurred and that we are living in a different, non-capitalist era
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Capitalism will collapse not because of somebody’s attempts to pull it down, but by its own shortfalls of economic theories. “Free market”" economy talk is all bosh. There is no free market anywhere in the world. However, it does not mean that free market is not possible. If you practice free market with omnipotent state to ensure the practice of free market, we will all get the results just opposite of capitalism. It would be a new civilization with most of the present day probems (poverty, inflation, unemployment, taxes, corruption etc) dissolved permanently. An economic theory of such a civilization has been presented to the world thinkers in 1993 by an Indian economist. He called it Hindu-economics, which is based on Hindu ethos and way of living. This is first of its kind in the world history of economic thoughts. The second edition of this treatise is now available from http://www.pothi.com