On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, there has been a continuous growth humanity and its
> material possessions for the last 5 thousand or so years, so
> capitalism, whatever that is, does not have a monopoly for growth.
Most definitely not true. Growth is almost entirely a product of capitalism. Among many other sources, here's Robert Gordon:
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/PolicyInsights/PolicyInsight63.pdf