Biography
Herman E. Daly is Emeritus Professor at
the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy. From 1988 to 1994 he was
Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank. Prior to 1988
he was Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University, where he
taught economics for twenty years. He holds a B.A. from Rice University and a
Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He has served as Ford Foundation Visiting
Professor at the University of Ceará (Brazil), as a Research Associate at Yale
University, as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and as
a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil. He has served on the boards of directors
of numerous environmental organizations, and was co-founder and associate
editor of the journal Ecological Economics. His interest in economic
development, population, resources, and environment has resulted in over a
hundred articles in professional journals and anthologies, as well as numerous
books, including Toward a Steady-State Economy (1973); Steady-State
Economics (1977; 1991); Valuing the Earth (1993); Beyond Growth (1996) ; Ecological
Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999) ; Ecological Economics:
Theory and Applications (with J. Farley, 2003) ; and Ecological
Economics and Sustainable Development (2007). He is co-author with
theologian John B. Cobb, Jr. of For the Common Good (1989;1994) which
received the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order. In 1996
he received Sweden's Honorary Right Livelihood Award, and the Heineken Prize
for Environmental Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences. In 1999 he was awarded the Sophie Prize (Norway) for contributions in
the area of Environment and Development; in 2001 the Leontief Prize for
contributions to economic thought, and in 2002 the Medal of the Presidency of
the Italian Republic for his work in steady-state economics. In 2010 the
National Council for Science and the Environment gave him its Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Areas of Interest:
Environmental Policy, Steady-State Economics, Development
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