Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The steady-state economy -- An overview of the issues -- The concept of a steady-state economy -- Institutions for a steady-state economy -- Efficiency in the steady-state economy -- Part II: The growth debate -- A catechism of growth fallacies -- Energy and the growth debate -- Developing economies and the steady state -- On biophysical equilibrium and moral growth -- Part III: Further essays in the economics of sustainability -- The steady-state economy: alternative to growthmania -- The circular flow of exchange value and the linear throughput of matter-energy: a case of misplaced concreteness -- Alternative strategies for integrating economics and ecology -- The economic growth debate: What some economists have learned, but many have not -- Sustainable development: from concept and theory toward operational principles -- Part IV: The debate continues: reviews and critiques / Herman E. Daly -- Review of the ultimate resource -- Review of population growth and economic development: policy questions -- Thermodynamic and economic concepts as related to resource-use policies: comment -- A. N. Whitehead's fallacy of misplaced concreteness: examples from economics.