Christine Lagarde would appear to favor economic growth, along with women's greater contribution to the economy, but she makes no reference to the fact that what today is referred to as "the economy" has little to do with what etymology would suggest. "The economy" now denotes an abstraction based in large measure on the generation of artificial demand, or, more explicitly, on a massive enterprise of which the pernicious object is to have people think they want what deep down they don't. Christine knows this as well as anyone else, and it's surprising that as recently as 2013 she should fail to qualify her approval of economic growth and her desire to see women contribute more to the system. There is also the question of what the global economy is doing to the planet, of course, but that is another matter.