For The Common Good Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

by Daly, Herman E.

• ISBN13: 9780807047057
• ISBN10: 0807047058
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future. Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.

Author Biography

Named one of the 100 "visionaries who could change your life" by the Utne Reader, Herman E. Daly is the recipient of many awards, including the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award, the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science, and the "Alternative Nobel Prize," the Right Livelihood Award. He is professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, and coauthor with John Cobb, Jr., of For the Common Good.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Economics as an Academic Discipline
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness in Economics and Other Disciplines	p. 25
Misplaced Concreteness: The Market	p. 44
Misplaced Concreteness: Measuring Economic Success	p. 62
Misplaced Concreteness: Homo economicus	p. 85
Misplaced Concreteness: Land	p. 97
New Beginnings
From Academic Discipline to Thought in Service of Community	p. 121
From Chrematistics to Oikonomia	p. 138
From Individualism to Person-in-Community	p. 159
From Cosmopolitanism to Communities of Communities	p. 176
From Matter and Rent to Energy and Biosphere	p. 190
Policies for Community in the United States
Free Trade versus Community	p. 209
Population	p. 236
Land Use	p. 252
Agriculture	p. 268
Industry	p. 283
Labor	p. 298
Income Policies and Taxes	p. 315
From World Domination to National Security	p. 332
Getting There
Possible Steps	p. 361
The Religious Vision	p. 382
Afterword: Money, Debt, and Wealth	p. 407
Appendix: The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare	p. 443
References	p. 508
Index	p. 521
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