Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development

by Daly, Herman E.

• ISBN13: 9781847201010
• ISBN10: 1847201016
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Author Biography

Herman E. Daly is Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, USA.

Table of Contents

Limits to growth	p. 9
Economics in a full world	p. 12
The challenge of ecological economics : historical context and some specific issues	p. 25
Sustainable development : definitions, principles, policies	p. 36
The illth of nations : comments on World Bank World Development Report, 2003	p. 50
Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?	p. 55
Consumption and welfare : two views of value added	p. 64
Ecological economics : the concept of scale and its relation to allocation, distribution, and uneconomic growth	p. 82
Sustaining our commonwealth of nature and knowledge	p. 104
The steady-state economy and peak oil	p. 117
How long can neoclassical economists ignore the contributions of Georgescu-Roegen?	p. 125
Off-shoring in the context of globalization	p. 143
Invited testimony to Russian Duma on resource taxation	p. 146
Involuntary displacement : efficient reallocation or unjust redistribution?	p. 149
Sustainable development and OPEC	p. 156
Can Nineveh repent again?	p. 172
Beck's Case Against Immigration	p. 176
Hardly green	p. 179
The return of Lauderdale's paradox	p. 184
When smart people make dumb mistakes	p. 188
Globalization versus internationalization, and four reasons why internationalization is better	p. 194
Population, migration, and globalization	p. 204
Policy, possibility, and purpose	p. 215
Feynman's unanswered question	p. 228
Roefie Hueting's perpendicular "demand curve" and the issue of objective value	p. 237
Conclusions	p. 251
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