Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Second Edition

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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"Valuing the Earth" collects more than 20 essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its ecological and ethical context. They demonstrate that, contrary to current macro-economic 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. The contributors are: 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, and Kenneth N. Townsend.

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Herman E. Daly is Senior Economist at the World Bank. Kenneth N. Townsend is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Hampden-Sydney College.