Limits to Growth – in Honour of its 50th Anniversary

Martin Sers is Adjunct Professor at York University and Fellow of the Centre for Sustainable Prosperity.

Limits to Growth was published in 1972. It was the first use of systems dynamics to model a growing economy on a finite planet. Systems Dynamics has become an indispensable tool in science and engineering but not in economics. The report was vilified – criticized as either too simple or too complex – because it challenged the idea that free markets could supply our needs endlessly.