Eigentlich wartete man seit der Finanzkrise vor 10 Jahren auf einen Gegenentwurf aus der Wirtschaftswissenschaft in Richtung eines nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens, dieses Buch könnte es aber sein: Eine britische Ökonomin seziert die in eine falsche Richtung (Stichwort: Wachstum) ausgerichtete...

From firewood to coal : deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan / S. Sugiyama and Izumi Yamada -- The government railways and the procurement of railway sleepers in prewar Japan / Asuka Yamaguchi -- The history of ecological environment : ideas derived from...

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia....

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...