{"id":4932,"date":"2022-11-08T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2022-11-08T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:38:11","slug":"herman-daly-84-who-challenged-the-economic-gospel-of-growth-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/herman-daly-84-who-challenged-the-economic-gospel-of-growth-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/08\/business\/economy\/herman-daly-dead.html?action=click&#038;module=Well&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;section=Obituaries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Herman Daly, 84, Who Challenged the Economic Gospel of Growth, Dies<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/08\/business\/economy\/herman-daly-dead.html?action=click&#038;module=Well&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;section=Obituaries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times 11\/08\/2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>poking \u201ca big hornets\u2019 nest with a short stick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best-known ecological economist, he faulted his mainstream peers for failing to account for the environmental harm growth can bring.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Daly, who for more than 50 years argued that the economic gospel of growth as synonymous with prosperity and progress was fundamentally, and dangerously, flawed because it ignored its associated costs, especially the depletion of natural resources and the pollution it engenders, died on Oct. 28 in Richmond, Va. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>The death, at a hospital, was caused by a brain hemorrhage, his daughter Karen Daly Junker said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Daly, an ecological economist, was almost surely his field\u2019s chief popularizer through his more than a dozen books and many journal articles, his faculty positions at the University of Maryland and, earlier, Louisiana State University, and his somewhat incongruous six-year stint at the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was branded a heretic for his theories \u2014 or, worse, ignored \u2014 among traditional economists, he had plenty of adherents, who saw him as prophetic for anticipating climate change\u2019s increasingly harmful impact and the vast sums of money needed to address it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times 11\/08\/2022 poking \u201ca big hornets\u2019 nest with a short stick.\u201d Perhaps the best-known ecological economist, he faulted his mainstream peers for failing to account for the environmental harm growth can bring. Herman Daly, who for more than 50 years argued that the economic gospel of growth as synonymous with prosperity and &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/herman-daly-84-who-challenged-the-economic-gospel-of-growth-dies\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3061,6,9,3825,2148,13,15,3279,17],"tags":[4103,4102,1962,4101,4106,4108,4104,4107,2369,4105],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4932","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-environment","9":"category-ethical-and-green-living","10":"category-finanace","11":"category-history","12":"category-obituaries","13":"category-politics","14":"category-science","15":"category-the-anthropocene","16":"category-thinking-about","17":"post_tag-ecological","18":"post_tag-economist","19":"post_tag-environmental","20":"post_tag-growth","21":"post_tag-growth-economy","22":"post_tag-herman-daly","23":"post_tag-natural-resources","24":"post_tag-nicolas-georgescu-roegen","25":"post_tag-pollution","26":"post_tag-steady-state-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}