Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
	Introduction to Essays toward a Steady-State Economy	11
I	Ecology: Ultimate Means and Biophysical Constraints
	Introduction	51
1	Why Isn't Everyone as Scared as We Are?	55
2	Availability, Entropy, and the Laws of Thermodynamics	69
3	The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem	75
4	Selections from "Energy and Economic Myths"	89
5	Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History	113
6	The Tragedy of the Commons	127
7	Second Thoughts on "The Tragedy of the Commons"	145
II	Ethics: The Ultimate End and Value Constraints
	Introduction	155
8	The Age of Plenty: A Christian View	159
9	Buddhist Economics	173
10	The Purpose of Wealth: A Historical Perspective	183
11	Ecology, Ethics, and Theology	211
12	The Abolition of Man	229
III	Economics: Interaction of Ends and Means
	Introduction	245
13	On Economics as a Life Science	249
14	Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem	267
15	Steady-State Economies and the Command Economy	275
16	The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth	297
17	Spaceship Earth Revisited	311
18	Using Economic Incentives to Maintain Our Environment	315
19	The Steady-State Economy: Toward a Political Economy of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth	325
20	Postscript: Some Common Misunderstandings and Further Issues Concerning a Steady-State Economy	365
	Index	383