Why Growth Is Over - Forever: Barry's Economics

Why isn’t the economy growing anymore? Because it can’t.

We’re not in the “Cowboy Economy” of endless expansion — we’re on Spaceship Earth, a closed system with finite resources.
Economists were warned about this in 1966… and ignored it.

In slow-growth economies, inequality explodes, billionaire wealth takes off, and everyone else feels squeezed.
This isn’t a glitch — it’s the new normal.

Sources & Studies Mentioned:
• Kenneth Boulding — The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (1966):
https://www.panarchy.org/boulding/spaceship.1966.html

• Robert Gordon — The Rise and Fall of American Growth (2016):
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691147727/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth

• Dani Rodrik — The Globalization Paradox / research:
https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/publications

• Thomas Piketty — Capital in the 21st Century (2014):
https://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/capital21c

• Stiglitz — The Great Divide (2015):
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393248579

• OECD (2015) In It Together:
https://www.oecd.org/social/in-it-together-why-less-inequality-benefits-all-9789264235120-en.htm

• IMF (2014) Redistribution, Inequality and Growth:
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2016/12/31/Redistribution-Inequality-and-Growth-41246

• Alesina & Perotti (1996):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2555730

• Wilkinson & Pickett — The Spirit Level data:
https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/the-spirit-level

• ONS UK Wealth Data (2023):
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth

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