This book is a convenient and comprehensive collection of seminal papers on the costs of economic growth. The papers are grouped in 6 sections covering: the origins of the debate, the limits to growth, measurement, international and global dimensions, developing countries, and looking ahead. The original introduction, written by the editor, draws out the main themes that run through this extensive and thought provoking literature. This timely collection is is intended for academics, students, researchers and anyone interested in this controversial topic.
Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Peter A. Victor PART I THE DEBATE BEGINS 1. John Stuart Mill ([1848] 1868), 'Of the Stationary State' 2. John Maynard Keynes ([1931] 1951), 'Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930)' 3. K. William Kapp (1950), 'The Nature and Significance of Social Costs' 4. Leopold Kohr (1978), 'Size and Living Standards' 5. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), 'The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth' 6. E.J. Mishan (1967), 'Foreword' 7. E.J. Mishan (1967), 'Growthmania' 8. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1975), 'Energy and Economic Myths' 9. Simon Kuznets (1973), 'Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections' 10.. Luis Francisco Carvalho and Joao Rodrigues (2006), 'On Markets and Morality: Revisiting Fred Hirsch' 11. Gideon Rosenbluth (1976), 'Economists and the Growth Controversy' PART II LIMITS TO GROWTH 12. Donella H. Meadows (2007), 'The History and Conclusions of The Limits to Growth' 13. Wilfred Beckerman (1992), 'Economic Growth and the Environment: Whose Growth? Whose Environment?' 14. Paul Ekins (1993), '"Limits to Growth" and "Sustainable Development": Grappling with Ecological Realities' 15. Giovanni Dosi and Marco Grazzi (2009), 'Energy, Development and the Environment: An Appraisal Three Decades After the "Limits to Growth" Debate' 16. Graham M. Turner (2008), 'A Comparison of The Limits of Growth with 30 Years of Reality' PART III MEASUREMENT 17. Christian Leipert (1986), 'Social Costs of Economic Growth' 18. Peter Bartelmus (2009), 'The Cost of Natural Capital Consumption: Accounting for a Sustainable World Economy' 19. Manfred Max-Neef (1995), 'Economic Growth and Quality of Life: A Threshold Hypothesis' 20. Clive Hamilton (1999), 'The Genuine Progress Indicator Methodological Developments and Results from Australia' 21. Mathis Wackernagel, Niels B. Schulz, Diana Deumling, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Martin Jenkins, Valerie Kapos, Chad Monfreda, Jonathan Loh, Norman Myers, Richard Norgaard and Jorgen Randers (2002), 'Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy' 22. William E. Rees (1992), 'Ecological Footprints and Appropriated Carrying Capacity: What Urban Economics Leaves Out' 23. Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb and Fridolin Krausmann (2007), 'Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP)' 24. Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger (1995), 'Economic Growth and the Environment' 25. Soumyananda Dinda (2004), 'Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: A Survey' 26. Richard T. Carson (2009), 'The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Seeking Empirical Regularity and Theoretical Structure' 27. Aurelien Boutaud, Natacha Gondran and Christian Brodhag (2006), '(Local) Environmental Quality Versus (Global) Ecological Carrying Capacity: What Might Alternative Aggregated Indicators Bring to the Debates About Environmental Kuznets Curves and Sustainable Development?' 28. Marian R. Chertow (2000), 'The IPAT Equation and Its Variants: Changing Views of Technology and Environmental Impact' 29. Fridolin Krausmann, Simone Gingrich, Nina Eisenmenger, Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl and Marina Fischer-Kowalski (2009), 'Growth in Global Materials Use, GDP and Population During the 20th Century' 30. Johan Rockstrom, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Asa Persson, F. Stuart III Chapin, Eric Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Bjorn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sorlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg, Robert W. Corell, Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen and Jonathan Foley (2009), 'Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity' PART IV INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL DIMENSIONS 31. John Asafu-Adjaye (2003), 'Biodiversity Loss and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis' 32. Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke (2010), 'The End of Economic Growth? A Cont
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