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About the AuthorsHerman E. Daly is a professor at the University of Maryland, School ofPublic Affairs. From 1988 to 1994 he was senior economist in the EnvironmentDepartment of the World Bank. Prior to 1988 he was Alumni Professorof Economics at Louisiana State University, where he taughteconomics for 20 years. He holds a B.A. from Rice University and a Ph.D.from Vanderbilt University. He has served as Ford Foundation Visiting Professorat the University of Ceará (Brazil), as a research associate at Yale University,as a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, and as asenior Fulbright lecturer in Brazil. He has served on the boards of directorsof numerous environmental organizations, and is co-founder and associateeditor of the journal Ecological Economics. His interest in economic development,population, resources, and environment has resulted in over ahundred articles in professional journals and anthologies, as well as numerousbooks, including Toward a Steady-State Economy (1973), Steady-State Economics (1977, 1991), Valuing the Earth (1993), Beyond Growth(1996), and Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999). He isco-author with theologian John B. Cobb Jr. of For the Common Good (1989,1994), which received the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for ImprovingWorld Order. In 1996 he received Sweden’s Honorary Right LivelihoodAward and the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science, which wasawarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999he was awarded the Sophie Prize (Norway) for contributions in the area ofenvironment and development and in 2002 the medal of the Presidency ofthe Italian Republic for his work in steady-state economics.Joshua Farley holds an undergraduate degree in biology from GrinnellCollege, a master’s in international affairs with a certificate in Latin Americanstudies from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in agricultural, resource,and managerial economics from Cornell University. A fellowshipat the University of Brasília first exposed him to the transdisciplinary fieldof ecological economics and, in particular, the work of Herman Daly. Ecologicaleconomics complemented his background in biology and internationaldevelopment and his extensive experience working, studying, andtraveling in less developed countries. After his studies at Cornell, he spentseveral years teaching ecological economics at the Centre for RainforestStudies in Far North Queensland, Australia, first as resident faculty andlater as program director. His teaching emphasized transdisciplinary, ap-499