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Ecological Economics

Textbooks:

Robert Constanza, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard Norgaard. An Introduction to Ecological Economics.  1997.   St. Lucie Press: Boca Raton, Florida.

Daly, Herman and Jeffrey Farley. 2003.  An Introduction to Ecological Economics.  Island Press.

Online Readings:

I. Humanity's Current Dilemma

White, Lynn. The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis.

Pope John Paul II. 1990.  The Ecological Crisis: A Common Responbility.  Message of His Holiness for the celebration of the WORLD DAY OF PEACE January 1, 1990 The Vatican.

Vitousek, P.M. et al.  1986.   Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis.  BioScience.  34(6):368-373.

Meadows, Donella H.;  Dennis l. Meadows, Jorgen  Randers, William W.  Behrens III.  1972. The Limits to Growth.  A Report to the Club of Rome.  Abstract established by Eduard Pestel.

Brown, Lester.  Eco-Economy. Building an Economy for the Earth. Earth Policy Institute.

Hawken, Paul.   1999.  Natural Capitalism.  Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.  New York:  Little, Brown, and Company.

Hardin, Garrett.  1968.  The Tragedy of the Commons.  Science, 162:1243-1248.

2. The Historical Development of Economics and Ecology

Smith, Adam.  1776.  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Smith, Adam.  1759.  The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Malthus, Thomas R. :  An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798.

David Ricardo.  1817.  On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.

Carnot, Sadi.  1824.  Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power.  Paris, France: Ecole Polytechnique.

Darwin, Charles. 1859.  El Origen de las Especies.

Mills, John Stuart.  1862.  Principles of Political Economy.

Mill, John Stuart. 1848.  The Principles of Political Economy: with some of their applications to social philosophy.

Mills, John Stuart.  1874. On Nature.

Jevons, W. Stanley.  1871.  The Theory of Political Economy. London: Macmillan.

3. Economics and Ecology Specialize and Separate

Haeckel, Ernst.  Ecology.

Von Bertalanffy, L.   1950.  An Outline of General System Theory.  British Journal of Philos. Science.  1:139-164.

Hotelling, Harold.  1931.  La Economia de los Recursos Agotables.  Journal of Political Economy.  39:137-175.

Georgescu-Rohen, Nicholas.  1971.  The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem.

Georgescu-Rohen, Nicholas.  1975"Energy and Economic Myths".  Reprinted from Southern Economic Journal 41, no. 3, January.  

Valero, Antonio. 1991.  Una Entrevista con Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.

Odum, Eugene P.  1953.  Fundamentals of Ecology.  Philadelphia: Saunders.

Boulding, Kenneth E.  1966.  The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth.

Hall, Charles; Dietmar Lindenberger, Reiner Kummel, Tim Kroeger, and Wolfgand Eichhorn. 2001.  The need to reintegrate the natural sciences into economics. Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, and Program of Environmental Studies, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York; Institute for Energy Economics, University of Cologne, Germany; Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of W?rzburg, Germany; Institute for Economic Theory and Operations Research, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

3. Problems and Principles of Ecological Economics

Kuhn, Thomas.  1962.  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Cleveland, Cutler.  Biophysical Economics: From Physiocracy to Ecological

Economics and Industrial Ecology.  Department of Geography and Center for      Environmental Studies.  Boston:  Massachussetts.

Daly, Herman. 1976.  Steady-State Economics:  A Cathechism of Growth Fallacies.

Daly, Herman; and Farley, Jeffrey.  2003.  Preanalytic Vision and First Analytical Steps.

Daly, H.E., and K.N. Townsend.  1993. "Sustainable Growth: Am Impossibility Theorem".  In Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics. Page 267, MIT Press.

Daly, H.E.  2002.  What Are the Philosophical Presuppositions of Policy, and Do

They Contradict Those Current in the Life Sciences?  School of Public Affairs University of Maryland College Park, Maryland.

Daly, H.E.  2002.  Sustainable Development: Definitions, Principles, Policies.  Invited Address, World Bank.  Washington, D.C.

Daly, H.E. 2002.  Uneconomic Growth and Globalization in a Full World.  School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland.  College Park, Maryland.

4.  Policy, Institutions, and Instruments

Backhaus, Jorgen.  1995. The Quest for Ecological Tax Reform: A Schumpeterian Approach to Public Finance.  Paper prepared for presentation at the Fifth Conference of the International J.A. Schumpeter Society. Rijksuniversiteit Limburg: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

Felder, Stefan, and Reto Schleiniger. 1999. Environmental Tax Reform: Efficiency and Political Feasibility.  Working Paper Series, ISSN 1424-0459.  Institute for Empirical Research in Economics: University of Zurich.

Krause, A., and R. Raikhlin .  The Economy as an Irreversible Thermodynamic System In The System of Sociology and Social Dynamics.

Other Links

Resource Productivity (Eco-efficiency)

A Meadows Graph

Setting Eco-Taxes

Herman Daly on Eco-Taxes

Example of an Eco-Tax Reform

Eco-Taxes Library

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