More than a century ago, English economist John Ruskin observed that the same economic system that creates glittering wealth also spawns what he called illth — poverty, pollution, despair, illness. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
Poverty, pollution, despair, and ill-health — what John Ruskin called illth — is the dark side of capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
Chase argued that American abundance produced "illth," a term he had borrowed from the nineteenth-century British gothicist John Ruskin, who argued that capitalist wealth produced social and mental disorders. From Wordnik.com. [TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog] Reference
Moreover, illth prevention is a lot cheaper than illth cleanup. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
The price of pollution would go up; corporate illth creation would go down. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6] Reference
If we want to reduce illth on an economy-wide scale, we need to change the code that produces it. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
Hence the system generates ever more illth, waste, and ever-widening disparities between rich and poor. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
Unless the code itself is changed, our economic machine will always create more illth than it cleans up. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
It occurs quietly and continuously as corporations add illth to the commons without permission or payment. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 2] Reference
One way to evaluate the performance of an economic system is to look at the ratio of well-being to illth it produces. From Wordnik.com. [B2fxxx] Reference
When illth of one sort gets too great, the new bits of code will turn the illth valve down, or give authority to trustworthy humans to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 10] Reference
Physical throughput growth is at the present margin and in the aggregate increasing illth faster than wealth, thus making us poorer rather than richer. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference
The correlation between throughput growth and GDP growth is sufficiently strong historically so that in the absence of countervailing policies even GDP growth frequently increases illth faster than wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference
More importantly, we begin to imagine a world in which nature and future generations are represented in real-time transactions, corporations internalize previously externalized costs, prices of illth-causing goods rise, and everyone receives some property income. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6] Reference
Beyond some point growth in production and population will begin to increase social and environmental costs faster than it increases production benefits, thereby ushering in an era of uneconomic growth — growth that on balance makes us poorer rather than richer, that increases “illth” faster than it increases wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference
Modern economists’ term for illth is negative externalities. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
The illth of nations and the fecklessness of policy: An ecological economist’s perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference
They’d have the power to reduce some of the negative externalities — the illth — that corporations shift to the commons. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6] Reference
The biggest defect of modern capitalism can be expressed in a single word: externalities or illth if you prefer John Ruskin’s prose. From Wordnik.com. [B2fxxx] Reference
There’s only good growth on one side of the ledger, and on the other, a void in which illth and debt accumulate, uncounted and unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6] Reference
For a long time, economists assured us that the wealth spewed out by our economic machine was so great, and the illth so trivial, that we didn’t need to worry about negative externalities. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
Why do we have so much illth and so many thneeds?. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1] Reference
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