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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Herman E Daly; Kenneth N Townsend |
| ISBN: | 0262041332 9780262041331 0262540681 9780262540681 |
| OCLC Number: | 26095952 |
| Description: | x, 387 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend -- Introduction to Essays toward a steady-state economy / Herman E. Daly -- I. Ecology : ultimate means and biophysical constraints. Introduction / Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend -- Why isn't everyone as scared as we are? / Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich -- Availability, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics / Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and John P. Holdren -- The entropy law and the economic problem / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- Selections from "Energy and economic myths" / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- Exponential growth as a transient phenomenon in human history / M. King Hubbert -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- Second thoughts on "The tragedy of the commons" / Garrett Hardin -- II. Ethics : the ultimate end and value constraints. Introduction / Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend -- The age of plenty : a Christian view / E.F. Schumacher -- Buddhist economics / E.F. Schumacher -- The purpose of wealth : a historical perspective / Gerald Alonzo Smith -- Ecology, ethics, and theology / John Cobb -- The abolition of man / C.S. Lewis -- III. Economics : interaction of ends and means. Introduction / Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend -- On economics as a life science / Herman E. Daly -- Sustainable growth : an impossibility theorem / Herman E. Daly -- Steady-state economies and the command economy / Kenneth N. Townsend -- The economics of the coming Spaceship Earth / Kenneth E. Boulding -- Spaceship Earth revisited / Kenneth E. Boulding -- Using economic incentives to maintain our environment / T.H. Tietenberg -- The steady-state economy : toward a political economy of biophysical equilibrium and moral growth / Herman E. Daly -- Postscript : some common misunderstandings and further issues concerning a steady-state economy / Herman E. Daly. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend. |
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