Herman Daly
Herman Daly was professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He was the author of numerous books, including Steady-State Economics, Beyond Growth, and For the Common Good (with theologian John Cobb, Jr.). Among the awards he received are the Right Livelihood Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment. He died in October, 2022.
Ecological Economics
Herman Daly, who died in October of this year, was for 60 years a powerful and articulate critic of mainstream economic thinking. Along with an early stint working at the World Bank, Daly had a distinguished career in academia, authored numerous books, and was the 1996 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award. What follows is…
Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits
We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the necessary precondition for any solution. This is growthism. It now creates more problems than it…