Opening book details…
Can I read Beyond Growth : The Economics of Sustainable Development on EtoBox?
Beyond Growth : The Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman E Author Daly is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond Growth : The Economics of Sustainable Development about?
"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 Herm
Who reads Beyond Growth : The Economics of Sustainable Development?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Herman E Author Daly
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807047064
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Nature, Economics, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (173 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14