Herman Daly, 84, Who Challenged the Economic Gospel of Growth, Dies
By the time Dr. Daly received his doctorate from Vanderbilt in 1967, he was teaching at LSU There, he began to focus more closely on the interconnections between the economy, the environment and ethics, with an emphasis on the steady-state principles articulated by the 19th-century British economist John Stuart Mill. Daly published his first book, “Toward a Steady-State Economy,” in 1973. dr Daly’s 1996 book “Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development,” one of some 20 he wrote detailing his theories. He remained at LSU until 1988, when, in an unlikely move, he joined the World Bank in Washington as a senior economist in the environment department. “It was a big surprise for me that the World Bank, whose basic policy was economic growth, offered me a job,” he wrote. While there, he developed his “three rules for sustainable development” and worked with others to try to change the bank’s system for measuring GDP to reflect environmental costs. The efforts, he wrote, we...