Valuing the Earth, second edition

Economics, Ecology, Ethics
2. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-262-54068-1
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 399 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

Valuing the Earth collects more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context. They vividly demonstrate that, contrary to current macroeconomic preoccupations, continued growth on a planet of finite resources cannot be physically or economically sustained and is morally undesirable.Among the issues addressed are population growth, resource use, pollution, theology (east and west), energy, and economic growth. Their common theme is the notion, popular with classical economists from Malthus to Mill, that an economic stationary state is more healthful to life on earth than unlimited growth. A number of essays in the first edition have become classics and have been retained for this edition, which adds six new essays.Contributors
Kenneth E. Boulding, John Cobb, Herman E. Daly, Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Garrett Hardin, John P. Holdren, M. King Hubbert, C. S. Lewis, E. F. Schumacher, Gerald Alonzo Smith, T. H. Tietenberg, Kenneth N. Townsend

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daly, Herman E.

Townsend, Kenneth N.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Townsend, Kenneth N.
Kenneth N. Townsend is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Hampden-Sydney College.

Daly, Herman E.
Herman E. Daly is Senior Economist at the World Bank.