Adbusters’ Person of the Year: Herman Daly

Herman Daly’s ideas might help us claw our way out of the economic and environmental mess we’re in.

Herman Daly isn’t your average neoclassical economist, though he may well have been were it not for certain key events in his life. Like most graduate students of economics, Daly once believed that growth was the key to solving humanity’s problems. But while earning his doctoral degree under one of the most respected economists of the day, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Daly’s confidence in growth was shaken.

Read the article ‘Big Idea:A Steady-State Economy’ here: by Herman Daly.

From: Adbusters.org