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#HermanDaly asked: economic growth for what, who, and how long? Arnie Arneson and I wrestled with these ?s and more while discussing Daly’s legacy on her radio show #TheAttitude. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238/episodes/2022-11-28T20_51_02-08_00

#HermanDaly's ideas inspired a movement to live within our means. The father of #EcologicalEconomics and an architect of #SustainableDevelopment died late last month, but his ideas live on in a world that may now be ready to hear them. My tribute to a mentor & friend in @TheConversationUS: https://theconversation.com/the-inconvenient-truth-of-herman-daly-there-is-no-economy-without-environment-193848

@costrike My first two questions where "when was this given?" (November 15, 2022) and does she mention #HermanDaly, who just died? (Yes.)

Thanks for sharing, digging in now.

Herman Daly obituary at The Guardian:

... Herman was not the first economist to argue for a steady-state economy, but he was the first to define it. He recognised that it would require policies to limit the physical scale of economies – their use of energy and materials – to within planetary boundaries; to ensure a just distribution of incomes and wealth; and for making economies more efficient in how resources are allocated to the production of different goods and services. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/11/herman-daly-obituary

#TIL Daly lost his left arm following a childhood bout of polio.

#HermanDaly #Obituary

A Herman Daly memorial written by Jon D. Erickson:

Remembering the renegade economist who fought for growth the Earth could actually sustain

https://www.fastcompany.com/90809223/remembering-the-renegade-economist-who-fought-for-growth-the-earth-could-actually-sustain

#HermanDaly #JonDErickson

I'm hit hard by this news. Daly was one of the few clear voices within the economics profession calling for an embrace of limits through much of the period from the 1970s onward. Not the only, but consistent, principled, and persuasive. His struggles with the economic mainstream, at the University of Louisiana (where his PhD candidates were effectively frozen out of degree conferral), at the World Bank (where he was economist in the early 1990s), and with the profession at large are ... a case study and Greek tragedy (shades, of course, of Cassandra).

And ... I'd utterly missed the fact of his death, which occurred on 28 October and was published in the Times on 8 November, a week ago. It was a quote at the end of another opinion essay (on of all things, Musk and Birdsite) which caught my eye, and made me wonder just how often Daly had been mentioned in the Times.

And so I discovered his obit.

Peter Coy's piece is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion/musk-twitter-tesla.html

The quote:

“There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.”

From Steady-State Economics (1977) http://pombo.free.fr/daly1991.pdf

And yes, there've been a number of other mentions, though not nearly as many as Daly deserved:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Anytimes.com+%22herman+daly%22&ia=web

Among the more interesting, "Mr. Soddy's Ecological Economy" (Daly is a bit player, but the ideas are central to his message):

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/opinion/12zencey.html

#HermanDaly #Obituary #EcologicalEconomics #Economics #CASSE #LimitsToGrowth #Growth #Books #SteadyStateEconomics

Another Daly legacy is the University of Vermont's Gund Institute for Environment, founded in 1992 by Robert Costanza, a protoge of both Daly and ecologist H.T Odum, with Joshua Farley, another Daly protoge) among its fellows:

https://www.uvm.edu/gund

https://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/profiles/joshua_farley

(Farley is quoted in the Times obit.)

Costanza is now creating a similar organisation Portland State University.

#HermanDaly #Obituary #EcologicalEconomics #Economics #CASSE #LimitsToGrowth #Growth #Books #RobertCostanza #JoshuaFarley

Herman Daly is the author of multiple books.

Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development (2007) is probably the best starting point:

Worldcat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/79002939

Internet Archive / Open Library: https://archive.org/details/fe_Ecological_Economics_and_Sustainable_Development-Selected_Essays_of_Herman_Daly

LibGen: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=03FD75FCC8A6F6B40625790C2FA1D55F

Author search at Worldcat: https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=au%3Aherman%20daly

Author search at LibGen: http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Herman%20E.%20Daly&column[]=author

#HermanDaly #Obituary #EcologicalEconomics #Economics #CASSE #LimitsToGrowth #Growth #Books

One of Daly's legacies is CASSE, the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy:

https://steadystate.org/

It's a small but scrappy group. There are articles and a (presently-suspended) podcast, The Steady Stater:

https://steadystate.org/learn/the-steady-stater-podcast/

Also the Daly News, named for, of course, Dr. Daly:

https://steadystate.org/category/the-daly-news/

#HermanDaly #Obituary #EcologicalEconomics #Economics #CASSE #LimitsToGrowth #Growth

The Times ran a recent profile on Daly. It's a bit lightweight but a good general introduction:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/18/magazine/herman-daly-interview.html

#HermanDaly #Obituary #EcologicalEconomics #Economics #CASSE #LimitsToGrowth #Growth

Herman Daly, 84, Who Challenged the Economic Gospel of Growth, Dies

... One of Dr. Daly’s key principles was that growth is “uneconomic” when its costs outweigh its benefits. That idea was tied to another: Earth, once empty, is now full — of people and what they produce — and charting a more sustainable path requires the use of fewer natural resources and the making of less waste. ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/business/economy/herman-daly-dead.html

Note that I've pulled only one 'graph from the Times obit. There are many, it's worth a read.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613523

#HermanDaly #Obituary #EcologicalEconomics #Economics #CASSE #LimitsToGrowth #Growth

"One of Dr. Daly’s key principles was that growth is “uneconomic” when its costs outweigh its benefits. That idea was tied to another: Earth, once empty, is now full — of people and what they produce — and charting a more sustainable path requires the use of fewer natural resources and the making of less waste."
While this should be a nobrainer, it was not.
NYT - #HermanDaly #obituary#Economics
#Environment
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/business/economy/herman-daly-dead.html

#HermanDaly's three rules for a sustainable society:
1) We cannot use renewable resources faster than they regenerate
2) We cannot use non-renewable resources faster than we can put renewable substitutes in place
3) We cannot generate wastes faster than the environment can absorb them