Book Launch: Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World: His Life and Ideas
By Peter A. Victor
Date: Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Time: 6.30 – 8pm (UK time)
Location: Online / Zoom
Registration: https://cusp-a-foss2021.eventbrite.co.uk
The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity is delighted to invite you to the launch of Peter Victor’s new book on the life and work of Herman Daly. We’ll be having Herman Daly and Peter Victor with us, joined by Katherine Trebeck and Ellie Perkins. The evening will be chaired by Tim Jackson.
ABOUT
The UK, like so many countries, faces a grave dilemma: how to regain pre-pandemic levels of economic activity and growth while reducing the already excessive environmental impacts of climate change, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, and contamination of air land and water. The ‘code red alert’ of the most recent IPCC report on climate change exemplifies the seriousness of these problems but it is only one of several globally significant environmental threats crying out for attention. The dilemma is that a return to unending economic growth, especially in advanced economies, is unlikely to be the answer.
Herman Daly is one of very few economists who has devoted his entire career to resolving this dilemma. His economics for a full world has been widely recognised through numerous national and international prestigious prizes and awards. His pathbreaking work on the steady-state economy provides the foundation for new approaches to economics finding favour especially among younger people such as well-being economics, doughnut economics, post-growth economics and degrowth. Daly, born and raised in southern Texas is admired for the clarity of his thinking and expression as well as his kindly manner. He is a founder of ecological economics which views the economy as embedded in and entirely dependent on the biosphere. Nothing in economics could be more relevant to advancing our understanding of and finding solutions for the climate crisis and sustainability.
The book has been published with Routledge. A 20% discount is available for purchase via the Routledge website (Code: FLY21).
