This is a link to a book-summary "When Corporations Ruled the World". Basically talks about the myth of global economic growth and how the way we measure growth may not be the best way to measure when taking into account quality of life.
I don't necessarily stand by the stuff strongly, but I do believe that the current never-ending growth paradigm with roots from the Industrial Revolution (unlimited resources, limited labour) all the way to now (limited resources, unlimited labour) is pretty screwed up.
Interesting stuff.
http://www.pcdf.org/corprule/myths.htm