Asian Villages as Recycling Models (1970)
Oddly enough, the traditional village economy, especially of Asia, may be more a prototype of the world to come than the economies of the great age of expansion in which we are now living, for to a considerable extent the village was cyclical, did return all waste products to the earth, and did not depend very much on imports from the outside. It, of course, was a low-level cyclic economy from which we have gratefully escaped. Nevertheless, what we are looking for in the spaceship is a high-level cyclical economy, some of the features of whch may have been foreshadowed in the traditional village.
Economics as a Science, McGraw Hill, 1970, p. 148.
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