Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basic concepts and ideas -- Limits to growth -- Economics in a full world -- The challenge of ecological economics : historical context and some specific issues -- Issues with the World Bank -- Sustainable development : definitions, principles, policies -- The illth of nations : comments on World Bank world development report, 2003 -- Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable world? -- Issues in ecological economics and sustainable development -- Consumption and welfare : two views of value added -- Ecological economics : the concept of scale and its relation to allocation, distribution, and uneconomic growth -- Sustaining our commonwealth of nature and knowledge -- The steady-state economy and peak oil -- How long can neoclassical economists ignore the contributions of Georgescu-Roegen? -- Testimony and opinion -- Off-shoring in the context of globalization -- Invited testimony to Russian Duma on resource taxation -- Involuntary displacement : efficient reallocation or unjust redistribution? -- Sustainable development and OPEC -- Reviews and critiques -- Can Nineveh repent again? -- Beck's case against immigration -- Hardly green -- The return of Lauderdale's paradox -- When smart people make dumb mistakes -- Globalization -- Globalization versus internationalization, and four reasons why internationalization is better -- Population, migration, and globalization -- Philosophy and policy -- Policy, possibility, and purpose -- Feynman's unanswered question -- Roefie Hueting's perpendicular "demand curve" and the issue of objective value -- Conclusions.

"Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development comprises a carefully chosen selection of some 25 articles, speeches, congressional testimonies, reviews, and critiques from the last ten years of Herman Daly's work." "This book seeks to identify the blind spots and errors in standard growth economics, alongside the corrections that ecological economics offers to better guide us toward a sustainable economy - one with deeper biophysical and ethical roots."--BOOK JACKET.