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Published: January 1, 2014
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Introduction

PART I ECONOMIC THEORY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 1: MOVING TO A STEADY-STATE ECONOMY

Biophysical Limits to Growth

Ethicosocial Limits

3 symptoms of growthmania:

CHAPTER 2: ELEMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MACROECONOMICS

The Environmental Macroeconomics of Optimal Scale

Policy Outruns Theory: Tradeable Permits As a Forced Separation of

Allocation, Distribution, and Scale

How Big is the Economy?

Cowboy, Spaceman, or Bull in the China Shop?

A Glittering Anomaly

CHAPTER 3: CONSUMPTION: VALUE ADDED, PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION, AND WELFARE

Consumption and Value Added

Consumption and Physical Transformation

Consumption and Welfare

PART II OPERATIONAL POLICY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 4

Operational Policy and Sustainable Development by Investing in Natural Capital

###Shifting Investment toward Natural Capital

How to Invest in Natural Capital

Chapter 5

Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Development:

Four Parting Suggestions for the World Bank

  1. Maximize the productivity of natural capital in the short run, and invest in increasing its supply in the long run.

PART III - NATIONAL ACCOUNTS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

Chapter 6 - Toward a Measure of Sustainable Net National Product

Sustainable Income

Defensive Expenditures

Depletion of Natural Capital

Chapter 7 - On Sustainable Development and National Accounts

The Anomaly: An Impossibility Hypothesis

Cost, Benefit, and Capital Accounts: An Alternative to GNP

From 1949, when he was still very much an orthodox economist, Kenneth Boulding (1969) argued the logic of Fisher’s view: I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfactions, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activities of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e., to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

PART IV - POPULATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

Chapter 8 - Carrying Capacity As a Tool of Development Policy:

The Ecuadoran Amazon and the Paraguayan Chaco

Chapter 9 - Marx and Malthus in Northeast Brazil:

PART V - INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

Chapter 10 - Free Trade and Globalization Vs. Environment and Community

  1. Costs of Transport, Dependence, and Reduced Range of Occupational Choice
  2. Standards-Lowering Competition to Externalize Costs
  3. important to count all costs

Refutation of two Common Objections

Classical vs Neoclassical views of Free trade

Globalization and Immigration

Chapter 11 - From Adjustment to Sustainable Development:

The Obstacle of Free Trade

Why Free Trade Conflicts with Sustainable Development

PART VI - TWO PIONEERS IN THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 12 - The Economic Thought of Frederick Soddy

The Neglected Physical Basis of Economics

The Major Confusion: Wealth Versus Debt

The Monetary flaw

Reform Measures

The Relevance of Soddy’s Economic Thought Today

Economic development since the Industrial Revolution has been in the direction of ever less reliance on the abundant solar flow and towards this dependence on the relatively scarce terrestrial stock. That is what Soddy called the “flamboyant period,” destined to be short-lived.

Chapter 13 - On Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s Contributions to Economics:

An Obituary Essay

PART VII - ETHICS, RELIGION, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

Chapter 14 - A Biblical Economic Principle and the Sustainable Economy

The Principle and Its Biblical Basis

The Principle in the Modern World

The Principle and the Steady-State Economy

Chapter 15 - Sustainable Development: From Religious Insight to Ethical Principle to Public Policy

The Religious Foundations of Sustainable Development

The Ethical Principle of Sustainable Development

Economic Policies for Sustainable Development

Summary and Conclusion