Ecological economics and sustainable development, selected essays of Herman Daly
By: Herman E. Daly.
Series: Advances in ecological economics series
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847201010
Subjects: Environmental economics.; Sustainable development.
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Basic concepts and ideas; Introduction; Limits to growth; Economics in a full world; The challenge of ecological economics: historical context and some specific issues; Issues with the World Bank; Introduction; Sustainable development : definitions, principles, policies; The illth of nations : comments on World Bank world development report, 2003; Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world?; Issues in ecological economics and sustainable development; Introduction; Consumption and welfare : two views of value added ecological economics : the concept of scale and its relation to allocation, distribution and uneconomic growth; Sustaining our commonwealth of nature and knowledge; The steady-state economy and peak oil; How long can neoclassical economists ignore the contributions of Georgescu-Roegen?; Testimony and opinion; Introduction; Off-shoring in the context of globalization; Invited testimony to Russian Duma on resource taxation; Involuntary displacement : efficient reallocation or unjust redistribution?; Sustainable development and OPEC; Reviews and critiques; Introduction; Can Nineveh repent again?; Beck's case against immigration; Hardly green; The return of Lauderdale's paradox; When smart people make dumb mistakes; Globalization; Introduction; Globalization versus internationalization, and four reasons why internationalization is better; Population, migration, and globalization; Philosophy and policy; Introduction; Policy, possibility, and purpose; Feynman's unanswered question; Roefie Hueting's perpendicular "demand curve" and the issue of objective value; Conclusions.