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....

Valuing the Earth collects more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context. They vividly demonstrate that, contrary to current macroeconomic preoccupations, continued growth on a planet of finite...