Valuing the Earth Economics, Ecology, Ethics

Name: Valuing the Earth Economics, Ecology, Ethics
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ISBN: 9780262540681

ISBN-10: 0262540681

ISBN-13: 9780262540681

Edition: 2nd 1993

Authors: Herman E. Daly, Kenneth N. Townsend

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Valuing the Earth collects more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context. They vividly demonstrate that, contrary to current macroeconomic preoccupations, continued growth on a planet of finite resources cannot be physically or economically sustained and is morally undesirable. Among the issues addressed are population growth, resource use, pollution, theology (east and west), energy, and economic growth. Their common theme is the notion, popular with classical economists from Malthus to Mill, that an economic stationary state is more healthful to life on earth than unlimited growth. A number of…

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List price: $34.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/24/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 399
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Introduction to Essays toward a Steady-State Economy




Ecology: Ultimate Means and Biophysical Constraints


Introduction




Why Isn't Everyone as Scared as We Are?




Availability, Entropy, and the Laws of Thermodynamics




The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem




Selections from "Energy and Economic Myths"




Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History




The Tragedy of the Commons




Second Thoughts on "The Tragedy of the Commons"




Ethics: The Ultimate End and Value Constraints


Introduction




The Age of Plenty: A Christian View




Buddhist Economics




The Purpose of Wealth: A Historical Perspective




Ecology, Ethics, and Theology




The Abolition of Man




Economics: Interaction of Ends and Means


Introduction




On Economics as a Life Science




Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem




Steady-State Economies and the Command Economy




The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth




Spaceship Earth Revisited




Using Economic Incentives to Maintain Our Environment




The Steady-State Economy: Toward a Political Economy of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth




Postscript: Some Common Misunderstandings and Further Issues Concerning a Steady-State Economy



Index