In your excellent essay, economics for a full world, you write that neo classical economics is essentially economicin realism. And here's a quote from that essay, subjective individual preferences, however whimsical or unconstructed, are taken as the ultimate source of value. So maximizing utility is the goal of humans in an economy. But what is utility its self referential? It's kind of like what you were saying before, that you're not studying the real your studying the model.
On this episode, we meet with ecological economist and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, Herman Daly.
Daly discusses the biophysical underpinnings of human economies, and how a social system that is more tethered to our ecological reality might come into being.
Daly explains how the transformation from classical economics to neoclassical economics created an understanding of the world that prioritized utility and money above all else. How did neoclassical economics contribute to our current predicament?
Further, Daly explores what he believes to be the best-case scenario humans face in the next decade.
About Herman Daly
Herman Daly is Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, former senior economist at the World Bank, and a founder of the field of ecological economics. He is the author of For The Common Good, Valuing the Earth, the textbook Ecological Economics, and many other books, essays, and academic papers
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/06-herman-daly