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List of figures and boxes vii

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1

PART 1 BASIC CONCEPTS AND IDEAS 5

1. Limits to growth 9

2. Economics in a full world 12

3. The challenge of ecological economics: historical context

and some specific issues 25

PART 2 ISSUES WITH THE WORLD BANK 33

4. Sustainable development: definitions, principles,

policies 36

5. Thy illth of nations: comments on World Bank World

Detelopment Report, 2003 50

6. Can we grow our way to an environmentally sustainable

world? 55

PART 3 ISSUES IN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 61

7. Consumption and welfare: two views of value added 64

8. f:cological economics: the concept of scale and its relation

to allocation, distribution, and uneconomic growth 82

9. Sustaining our commonwealth of nature and knowledge 104

10. The steady-state economy and peak oil 117

11. How long can neoclassical economists ignore the

contributions of Georgescu-Roegen? 125

PART 4 TESTIMONY AND OPINION 139

12. Off-shoring in the context of globalization 143

13. Invited testimony to Russian Duma on resource taxation 146

14. Involuntary displacement: efficient reallocation or unjust redistribution? 149

15. Sustainable development and OPEC 156

PART 5 REVIEWS AND CRITIQUES 169

16. Can Nineveh repent again? 172

17. Beck's Case Against Immigration 176

18. Hardly green 179

19. The return of Lauderdale's paradox 184

20. When smart people make dumb mistakes 188

PART 6 GLOBALIZATION 191

21. Globalization versus internationalization, and four reasons why internationalization is better 194

22. Population, migration, and globalization 204

PART 7 PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY 211

23. Policy, possibility, and purpose 215

24. Feynman's unanswered question 228

25. Roefie Hueting's perpendicular "demand curve" and the issue of objective value 237

26. Conclusions 251

Index 257