Herman Daly

Herman Daly

Herman Daly was an ecological economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy. From 1988 to 1994, he was a Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank. Prior to that, he was a professor of economics at Louisiana State University, where he taught for twenty years. He has served as Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Ceará (Brazil), Research Associate at Yale University, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil. He was co-founder and associate editor of the journal Ecological Economics. He wrote extensively on theorizing the steady-state economy and co-developed the Index of Sustainable Welfare. He held a PhD from Vanderbilt University.

GTI Contributions
Reflections on Population
GTI Forum
Reflections on Population
Contribution to GTI Forum The Population Debate Revisited
August 2022


Roundtable contribution on Why Ecosocialism - Herman Daly
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable Do Red and Green Mix?
December 2018
Löwy’s Marxist version of ecosocialism offers an inadequate framework for contemporary challenges.

Roundtable contribution on Global Capitalism - Herman Daly
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable Global Capitalism
June 2017
The call to replace global capitalism with global ecosocialism leaves unanswered the question of community well-being.

Economics for a Full World
Essay
Economics for a Full World
June 2015

We live in a full world but still behave as if it were empty. The urgent task ahead of us is to create an economy that remains within the earth’s carrying capacity while rethinking the ultimate purpose of the economy itself.

Commentary by John Barry, Nancy Folbre, Tim Jackson, Giorgos Kallis, Robert Paehlke, Stephen Purdey, Alan Willis, and Eric Zencey, and a response from the author


Herman Daly
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable "On Degrowth"
An exchange on the viewpoint The Degrowth Alternative
February 2015

Herman Daly
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable "Monetizing Nature"
August 2014

Herman Daly
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable "Limits to Investment"
April 2014