Daly was born in Houston, Texas in 1938.[3] Before joining the World Bank, Daly was a research associate at Yale University,[4] and Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University.
Daly was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America. He is closely associated with theories of a steady-state economy. He was a co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics.[5]
Daly was the editor of a long-lived and influential anthology, originally published in 1973 as Toward a Steady-State Economy, and twice revised (under different titles; see bibliography), in 1980 and 1993. Writers and topics in the original 1973 edition included:[10]
Daly died on October 28, 2022, at the age of 84.[11]
Selected publications
Books
Daly, Herman E. (1991) [1977]. Steady-State Economics (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Island Press. ISBN978-1-55963-071-9.
Daly, Herman E.; Cobb, John B. Jr (1994) [1989]. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (2nd updated and expanded ed.). Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN978-0-8070-4705-7. Received the Grawemeyer Award for ideas for improving World Order.
Daly, Herman E., ed. (1973). Toward a Steady-state Economy. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. ISBN978-0-7167-0793-6.
Daly, Herman E., ed. (1980). Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Essays Toward a Steady-State Economy. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. ISBN978-0-7167-1179-7. Revised edition of 1973 anthology.
Daly, Herman E. (2007). Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development: Selected Essays of Herman Daly. Advances in Ecological Economics. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. ISBN978-1-84720-988-7.
Daly, Herman E.; Farley, Joshua (2003). Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications (1st ed.). Washington, DC: Island Press. ISBN978-1-55963-312-3.
Farley, Joshua; Erickson, Jon D.; Daly, Herman E. (2005). Ecological Economics: a Workbook for Problem-Based Learning. Washington, DC: Island Press. ISBN978-1-55963-313-0.
Daly, Herman E.; Farley, Joshua (2010). Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Island Press. ISBN978-1-59726-681-9.
Daly, Herman E. (24 April 2008). A steady state economy. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Paper presented to the UK Sustainable Development Commission [2]