Herman Edward Daly (July 21, 1938 – October 28, 2022) was an American

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and

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and professor at the School of Public Policy of

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in the

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, best known for his time as a senior economist at the

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from 1988 to 1994. In 1996, he was awarded the

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for "defining a path of ecological economics that integrates the key elements of ethics, quality of life, environment and community."

Life and work

Dale was born in Houston, Texas in 1938. Before joining the World Bank, Daly was a research associate at Yale University, and Alumni Professor of Economics at

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. Daly was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the

, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to

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. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America. He is closely associated with theories of a

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. He was a co-founder and associate editor of the journal, '' Ecological Economics''. In 1989 Daly and

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developed the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), which they proposed as a more valid measure of socio-economic progress than

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. Daly is a recipient of an Honorary

, the

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for Environmental Science from the

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, the 1992

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for Ideas Improving World Order, the Sophie Prize (Norway), the Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute, and was chosen as Man of the Year 2008 by ''

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'' magazine. He is widely credited with having originated the idea of uneconomic growth, though some credit this to

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who developed it more completely in her study of the UN System of National Accounts. In 2014, Daly was the recipient of the

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of the Asahi Glass Foundation. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 28, 2022 at the age of 84.

''Toward a Steady-State Economy''

Daly was the editor of a long-lived and influential anthology, originally published in 1973 as ''Toward a Steady-State Economy'', and twice revised (under different titles; see bibliography), in 1980 and 1993. Writers and topics in the original 1973 edition included: * Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen on ''The Entropy Law and the Economic Process'' *

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on mineral resources * Paul R. Ehrlich and John Holdren on population * Leon R. Kass on bioethics * Kenneth E. Boulding on the "Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" *

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's 1968 article, "

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" * Daly on the steady-state economy * Warren A. Johnson on the guaranteed income as an environmental measure * Richard England and Barry Bluestone on ecology and social conflict *

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on political economy ("Leviathan or oblivion?") *

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on ''

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'' (title of his book, also published in 1973) * Walter A. Weisskopf on economic growth versus existential balance * Daly's essay, "Electric power, employment, and economic growth: a case study in growthmania" *

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and

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on the carrying capacity of the environment *

on "ecology, ethics, and theology" * C.S. Lewis on '' The Abolition of Man'' (an extract from his 1943 book of the same name)

Death

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Selected publications

Books

* * Received the

for ideas for improving World Order. * *

Edited anthologies

* * Revised edition of 1973 anthology. * Revised edition of 1980 anthology.

Essays

* * *

Textbooks

* * *

Articles

* * * ::See also: * ::See also: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen,

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and

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* Paper presented to the UK Sustainable Development Commissio

* *Herman Daly interviewed by David Marchese
'This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End,'

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17 July 2022

References

External links

Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE)

The Daly News
steady state commentary and related news, with essays by Herman Daly

1999, on "uneconomic growth in theory and in fact"

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