Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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