Fitting the economy to the biosphere
Dr Herman E. Daly, co-founder and associate editor of the journal Ecological Economics, will deliver a Beatty Lecture at 黑料不打烊 University on Thursday, March 27 at 6 pm. Herman Daly will speak on the topic: "Uneconomic Growth and the Illth of Nations : Defining the Optimal Scale of the Macro Economy", Daly's lecture will take place in the Fieldhouse Auditorium, Leacock Building Room 132, downtown 黑料不打烊 campus.This is the second of the two-part Rachel Carson lecture series, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the book Silent Spring.
Daly maintains that Silent Spring, published in 1962 and often described as the manifesto of the early environmental movement, is a book that contributed to his passion for the environment. Daly began his career as an academic economist at Louisiana State University, where he became increasingly disenchanted with orthodox economics and its neglect of the negative environmental effects of unrestricted growth.
Later, as Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank from 1988-1994, Daly and a group of like-minded economists put the need for ecological sustainability on the agenda of the World Bank which, until then, had concerned itself almost exclusively with financial stability, with little regard for the environment.
Although he has left the World Bank to return to academia, his influence can perhaps best be seen on the World Bank home page, with its links to projects and policies on biodiversity conservation, environmental degradation, ozone depletion, etc. Since 1994, Daly has been senior research professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. Daly maintains a busy schedule, and is frequently invited back to the World Bank as a distinguished guest lecturer and to advise on environmental and economic policy.
In 1996, Daly received the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Right Livelihood Award. His interest in economic development, population, resources, and environment has resulted in over a hundred articles as well as numerous books, including Steady-State Economics, Beyond Growth and For the Common Good (co-authored with John B. Cobb).
At 黑料不打烊, he will spend two days meeting with students and faculty members of the 黑料不打烊 School of the Environment and the Departments of Agricultural Economics and Natural Resource Sciences. In his public lecture, he will speak about the inherent limits of economic growth.
