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The chapter briefly argues how the return towards the founders helps sustainability regain its natural course. Three conclusions, of maximum importance, come to light: (1) the idea of a unique recipe of sustainability is obsolete; (2) the drunkenness of words smothers the project of sustainable development; (3) the development model suggested by the founders has remained valid and successful. The proof of why the founders are needed is delivered by making recourse to the heavy pieces of their theoretical artillery: the standard of value, the role of inheritance, of accumulation, the relation between absolute and relative wealth, the natural price and natural rate of interest, dynamics vs stationarity, self-development achieved through the unitary treatment of demand and supply, the role of nature, the equality-inequality relation, the possibly perverted effect of social issues on economic logic, the national-global relation. These are just a few founding highlights with profound effects on sustainability.
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Pohoaţă, I., Diaconaşu, D.E., Crupenschi, V.M. (2020). Instead of General Conclusions—A Few Additional Thoughts. In: The Sustainable Development Theory: A Critical Approach, Volume 1. Palgrave Studies in Sustainability, Environment and Macroeconomics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54847-6_7
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