Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development

Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the earth and its diminishing natural resources at the center of the field . . . a kind of reverse Copernican revolution in economics. --Utne Reader. Considered by most to be the dean of ecological economics Herman E. Daly elegantly topples many shibboleths in Beyond Growth. Daly challenges the conventional notion that growth is always good and he bucks environmentalist orthodoxy arguing that the current focus on sustainable development is misguided and that the phrase itself has become meaningless.--Mother Jones. In Beyond Growth . . . [Daly] derides the concept of sustainable growth as an oxymoron. . . . Calling Mr. Daly an unsung hero Robert Goodland the World Banks top environmental adviser says He has been a voice crying in the wilderness. --G. Pascal Zachary The Wall Street Journal. A new book by that most far-seeing and heretical of economists Herman Daly. For 25 years now Daly has been thinking through a new economics that accounts for the wealth of nature the value of community and the necessity for morality. --Donella H. Meadows Los Angeles Times. For clarity of vision and ecological wisdom Herman Daly has no peer among contemporary economists. . . . Beyond Growth is essential reading.--David W. Orr Oberlin College. There is no more basic ethical question than the one Herman Daly is asking. --Hal Kahn The San Jose Mercury News. Dalys critiques of economic orthodoxy . . . deliver a powerful and much-needed jolt to conventional thinking. --Karen Pennar Business Week. Named one of a hundred visionaries who could change your life by the Utne ReaderHerman Daly is the recipient of many awards including a Grawemeyer Award the Heineken Prize for environmental science and the Alternative Nobel Prize the Right Livelihood Award. He is professor at the University of Marylands School of Public Affairs and coauthor with John Cobb Jr. of For the Common Good.