num_pages: 208
description: In this controversial new book Herman Daly, a leading commentator on the environment, offers lively criticism of existing work on ecological economics and the economics of ecology. The theme throughout the book is about changes in perspective, attitudes and policies required to avoid uneconomic growth - that is, the impoverishment that results when the environmental and social costs of growth exceed the benefits. Key issues addressed growth economics misunderstandings of thermodynamics economic development and population globalization money humans in the ecosystem This major new book will be of interest to economists, ecologists, environmentalists, public policy scholars and activists as well as social philosophers.
language: English
title: Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics: Essays in Criticism
titlecomplete: Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics: Essays in Criticism
genres: Economics
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Edward Elgar Pubishing. Inc.