Introduction - Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend Introduction to Essays toward a steady-state economy - Herman E. Daly I. Ecology : ultimate means and biophysical constraints. Introduction - Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend 1. Why isn't everyone as scared as we are? - Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich 2. Availability, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics - Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and John P. Holdren 3. The entropy law and the economic problem - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 4. Selections from "Energy and economic myths" - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 5. Exponential growth as a transient phenomenon in human history - M. King Hubbert 6. The tragedy of the commons - Garrett Hardin 7. Second thoughts on "The tragedy of the commons" - Garrett Hardin II. Ethics : the ultimate end and value constraints. Introduction - Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend 8. The age of plenty : a Christian view - E.F. Schumacher 9. Buddhist economics - E.F. Schumacher 10. The purpose of wealth : a historical perspective / Gerald Alonzo Smith 11. Ecology, ethics, and theology - John Cobb 12. The abolition of man - C.S. Lewis III. Economics : interaction of ends and means. Introduction - Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend 13. On economics as a life science - Herman E. Daly 14. Sustainable growth : an impossibility theorem - Herman E. Daly 15. Steady-state economies and the command economy - Kenneth N. Townsend 16. The economics of the coming Spaceship Earth - Kenneth E. Boulding 17. Spaceship Earth revisited - Kenneth E. Boulding 18. Using economic incentives to maintain our environment - T.H. Tietenberg 19. The steady-state economy: toward a political economy of biophysical equilibrium and moral growth - Herman E. Daly 20. Postscript : some common misunderstandings and further issues concerning a steady-state economy - Herman E. Daly.