The Theoretical Bases for Sustainability in Economics: Considerations (Note 1)

Abstract

The guiding idea starts from the hypothesis that the anthropic principle can be applied to economic science, according to which nature and human beings would be involved in maintaining life on the planet. By following this approach, we can define good governance based on the results it obtains in the field of the economy, so we can speak of good governance if it keeps growth in balance and in slow progression. While a government can lose confidence if it exposes the community to the risks of the economic situation. Therefore, in the management of the economy, the economic cycle, which involves the risk of depression or decline of the GDP, must be understood not as an anomaly, but rather as a warning to the community that things in the economy are bad and that we must then adapt or change the guidance and programs in public management. The community, which is responsible for choosing the leadership and direction of government, is therefore the arbiter of the survival of mankind linked not only to constant and gradual growth but also to the commitment made to the promotion of science and research. There seems no doubt, in fact, that the community is the terminal of the relationship between humanity and nature and that the basic instrument of this relationship is science and research. The latter should be understood as the main tools because the relationship between humanity and the planet tends towards the neutrality of the presence of human beings on the planet. And, while waiting to reach this difficult goal, the community must do its utmost to reduce the degree of pollution of the environment. For the above, the idea becomes acceptable that the handmaids of the conjuncture, deflation and inflation, are messages that the community receives from nature, so that it becomes interpreter to the government of the economy that things are not going well and a worsening of living conditions. The community or rather its majority is the terminal of the relationship between human beings and nature and also the confirmation that there is a concordant purpose between human beings and nature for the safeguarding of life on the planet. On the other hand, the mediator of this relationship is research and science which are the tools to increase the harmony between humanity and nature, so that the presence of man does not degrade the environment and tends to a condition of neutrality of the presence of life.