The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable – and unethical.
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.