Impacts Photo by Ruth H Curtis on Unsplash Herman Daly, 84, who challenged the economic gospel of growth, dies Perhaps the best-known ecological economist, he faulted his mainstream peers for failing to account for the environmental harm growth can bring.
This pioneering economist says our obsession with growth must end “It’s a false assumption,” argues Herman Daly, “to say that growth is increasing the standard of living in the present world.”
