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This 3 page paper outlines Herman Daly's book "Beyond Growth" and compares it to the writings of Rene Girard. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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economic growth; in fact, he has sounded a warning for years about the need to develop sustainable resources. But then he has enraged environmentalists by also suggesting that the
idea of a "sustainable economy" as they have defined it, is also fatally flawed. This paper outlines Dalys book Beyond Growth and compares it to the writings of Rene
Girard. Beyond Growth Daly divides his book into seven sections and then develops his theories with regard to each of the fields listed. The seven are economic theory; operational
policy; national accounts; population; international trade; pioneers in the field; and ethics and religion. The first section on the economy is possibly the most challenging, since he suggests that
both environmentalists and unlimited growth proponents have it wrong. The next six sections support the first. He uses the term "throughput" to describe the process by which we
transform resources to commodities, and suggests that no matter how we look at it, "[T]hroughput begins with depletion and ends with pollution" (Daly, 1997, p. 31). He also
reminds us that our resources are finite, not infinite, despite the fact that most economists refuse to admit that: "because otherwise they would have to admit that economic growth
faces limits and that is unthinkable" (Daly, 1997, p. 34). And he also rejects the idea that its going to be possible to replace natural resources with man-made ones
on a scale large enough for the growth economy model to remain viable (Daly, 199&0. There must be a change, and he suggests that the change we need to
make is from a growth economy to a "steady-state economy" (Daly, 1997, p. 31). But his idea of a steady state economy differs significantly from the environmentalists "sustainable economy,"
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