Steady-state economics, by Herman Daly, ecological economist
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Steady-state economics, by Herman Daly, ecological economist
Herman Daly (1938 - 2022) did some of the best work on economic sustainability; he wrote many books and essays on the subject, including Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, Boston Beacon Press, 1997.
Daly was the editor of a long-lived and influential anthology, originally published in 1973 as Toward a Steady-State Economy, and twice revised in 1980 and 1993. Editions are available from online bookstores.
Herman Edward Daly was an American ecological economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. He was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America. He is closely associated with theories of a steady state economy.
He is widely credited with having originated the idea of uneconomic growth, though some credit this to Marilyn Waring who developed it more completely in her study of the UN System of National Accounts.[2]
Books
Toward a Steady-State Economy(editor, 1973)
Steady-State Economics(1977)
For the Common Good, (1989, with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.). This received the Grawemeyer Award for ideas for improving World Order.
Valuing the Earth(1993, with Kenneth Townsend)
Beyond Growth(1996)
Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics(1999)
The Local Politics of Global Sustainability(2000, with Thomas Prugh and Robert Costanza)
Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications(2003, with Joshua Farley)
Articles
Daly, Herman E. (November 1993). "The Perils of Free Trade". Scientific American 269 (5): 24–29.
Daly, Herman E. (1995). "On Wilfred Beckerman's Critique of Sustainable Development". Environmental Values 4: 49–55.
Economics in a Full World, article in Scientific American (2005)
A Steady State Economy, Paper presented to the UK Sustainable Development Commission, April 24, 2008