Background
Daly, Herman Edward was born on July 21, 1938 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Edward Joseph and Mildred Herrmann Daly.
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"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 Bank's 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 "Daly's 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 Reader,Herman 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 Maryland's School of Public Affairs, and coauthor with John Cobb, Jr., of For the Common Good.
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'This timely collection of essays is a magnificent testament to Daly's pioneering work over four decades. Armed with clear scientific principles and an unfailing logic, Daly sets out on an urgent quest to develop an economics fit for purpose on a finite planet. The originality and clarity of thought revealed in this new collection is extraordinary. It cements Daly's status as the most visionary economist of our time.' - Tim Jackson, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK 'Herman Daly has been leading the way on uneconomic growth and steady-state economics for nearly 50 years, and still is. His numerous contributions are increasingly relevant and influential, deeply insightful and unusually accessible to readers from all walks of life. How fortunate we are to have in a single volume so many of Daly's most important papers. Re-reading them is a pleasure and an inspiration, reading them for the first time could very well change your life.' - Peter A. Victor, York University, Canada 'Herman Daly has helped us to realize that there is economic growth and uneconomic growth. In so doing, he reminds us that the only viable long-term option is a steady-state economy.' - Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Full Planet, Empty Plates In this important book, Herman E. Daly lays bare the weaknesses of growth economics and explains why, in contrast, a steady-state economy is both necessary and desirable. Through the course of the book, Daly develops the basic concept and theory of a steady-state economy from the 1970s limits to growth debates. In doing so, he draws on work from the classical economists, through both conflicts and agreements with neo-classical and Keynesian economists, as well as recent debates on uneconomic growth. Editorial-style policy essays substantiate Daly's argument and he provides specific application of steady-state economics to important current issues, including monetary reform, tax reform, international trade and population. The book also includes discussion and critique of ethical, as well as biophysical, presuppositions of growth. From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy is essential reading for academics, students and researchers in the fields of ecological economics, environmental studies, economic development, resource economics and public policy. Contents: Preface 1. Introduction : Envisioning a Successful Steady-State Economy Part I: Early Discussion of Basic Steady-State Concepts 2. The Economics of the Steady State 3. In Defense of a Steady-State Economy Part II: Later Extensions into Standard Economics 4. Towards an Environmental Macroeconomics 5. Growth, Debt, and the World Bank Part III: Recent Revival of the Growth Debate, and Policies for a Steady State 6. A Further Critique of Growth Economics 7. Moving from a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady State Economy 8. Climate Policy: From 'Know How' to 'Do Now' Part IV: Ethical Foundations of a Steady-State Economy 9. Incorporating Values in a Bottom-Line Ecological Economy 10. Ethics in Relation to Economics, Ecology, and Eschatology Part V: Short Essays on Current Issues Related to Growth versus Steady State Index
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(Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World ...)
Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future. Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.
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First published in 1977, this volume caused a sensation because of Daly's radical view that enough is best. Today, his ideas are recognized as the key to sustainable development, and Steady-State Economics is universally acknowledged as the leading book on the economics of sustainability.
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The Life of Schleiermacher V2: As Unfolded in His Autobiography and Letters (1860)
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Daly, Herman Edward was born on July 21, 1938 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Edward Joseph and Mildred Herrmann Daly.
Bachelor, Rice University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Vanderbilt University, 1967.
Before joining the World Bank, Daly was a Research Associate at Yale University, and Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. Daly was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America.
He is closely associated with theories of a steady-state economy.
In 1989 Daly and John B. Cobb developed the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), which they proposed as a more valid measure of socio-economic progress than gross domestic product. He is widely credited with having originated the idea of uneconomic growth, though some cr this to Marilyn Waring who developed it more completely in her study of the United Nations System of National Accounts.
In 2014, Daly was the recipient of the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation. Toward a Steady-State Economy
Daly was the editor of a long-lived and influential anthology, originally published in 1973 as Toward a Steady-state Economy, and twice revised (under different titles.
See bibliography), in 1980 and 1993.
Writers and topics included in the original 1973 edition included:
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen on The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem
Preston Cloud on mineral resources
Paul R. Ehrlich and John Holdren on population
Leon R. Kass on bioethics
Kenneth East. Boulding on the "Economics of Spaceship Earth" (an extract from his 1966 book of the same name)
Garrett Hardin"s 1968 article, "The Tragedy of the Commons"
Daly on the steady-state economy
Warren A. Johnson on the guaranteed income as an environmental measure
Richard England and Barry Bluestone on ecology and social conflict
William Ophuls on political economy ("Leviathan or oblivion?")
East.F. Schumacher on "Small is Beautiful" (title of his book, also published in 1973)
Walter A. Weisskopf on economic growth versus existential balance
Daly"s essay, "Electric power, employment, and economic growth: a case study in growthmania"
Jørgen Randers and Donella Meadows on the carrying capacity of the environment
John B. Cobb on "ecology, ethics, and theology
Christian Science Lewis on "The Abolition of Manitoba" (an extract from his 1943 book of the same name).
(Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World ...)
(A controversial treatise on the economics of global susta...)
("Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the eart...)
(First published in 1977, this volume caused a sensation b...)
('This timely collection of essays is a magnificent testam...)
(The Life of Schleiermacher V2: As Unfolded in His Autobio...)
(2nd edition)
Married Marcia Damasceno, July 19, 1963. Children: Theresa Maria, Karen Denise.