Growth and de-growth in the moral maze

Is stagnation really the progressive option?

Michael Buerk, our intrepid leader through the maze

On this week’s BBC Moral Maze, my colleagues and I discussed economic growth. Some conservatives think the government should do much more to generate greater economic growth. Until this is done, they say, we can’t get any richer, wages can’t increase and public services decline.

Some, however, say econom…