PETER A. VICTOR

This comprehensive volume of nearly 1000 pages, is a collection of sixty seminal papers on the costs of economic growth from 1848 to 2011. It provides ready access to an increasingly relevant literature that was previously scattered in a variety of books and journals. The papers are grouped into 6 main sections covering the following: the origins of the debate (including John Stuart Mill's 'Of the Stationary State', the limits to growth (covering the debate on book The Limits to Growth), measurement (including papers by Leipert, Max-Neef, Wackernagel, and Rockström), international and global dimensions (including papers on biodiversity loss, climate change, trade, and violent international conflict), developing countries (including papers on China, India and Sub-Saharan Africa), and looking ahead (featuring Herman Daly's 'Beyond Growth' as well as papers by Juliet Schor, Tim Jackson, and Robert Ayers on sustainable growth). The original introduction, written by the editor, draws out the main themes that run through this extensive and thought-provoking literature.