a long and very i ask myself why politicians business people and even ordinary citizens are so obsessed with economic growth even though we've known for forty years that this growth is harmful in the end that infinite growth isn't possible on a finite planet by. both its looks back to the time of germany's post-war economic miracle. back then no one was talking about a crisis of capitalism. if we look at the history of west germany it's clear that economic growth practically gave it a night density after the second world war a positive identity. then came the oil crisis of the seventy's and the boom times looks set to end financial controls were loose and the era of unfettered capitalism began so that the so-called big bang in the city was all about. deregulation let's go let the market decide where money now talks