"Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of 8 billion humans combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth has stressed the planet beyond carrying capacity. This richly illustrated book describes our current predicament and identifies alternative economic pathways toward a...

"As the first biography of Professor Herman Daly, this book provides an in-depth account of one of the leading thinkers and most widely read writers on economics, environment and sustainability. Herman Daly's economics for a full world, based on his steady-state economics, has been widely...

Foreword / by Herman Daly -- Out of Texas -- Herman the economist -- Philosophy, ethics and religion -- Economics as a life science -- Scale, distribution, allocation -- Measuring the economy -- What's wrong with economic growth? -- Steady-state economics -- In defense of the steady-state...