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TEASER - Going Steady: Happy Birthday, Herman Daly

July 22, 2025 • University of Toronto Press • Season 6 • Episode 1

Herman Daly would have turned 87 years old on July 21st, 2025. While he is no longer with us, his ideas have lived on - shaping an economic future that we haven’t yet achieved, but is steadily becoming the most probable way forward in the face of rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and ecological and economic decimation.

But who exactly was Herman Daly? Why was his work scorned by the World Bank? And how can his plan for world economics save the planet?

Featuring economists Gaya Herrington, Tim Jackson, Kate Raworth, along with other experts, scholars, and Herman's nearest and dearest, join host David Miller for a special limited series exploring the life of Herman Daly, the economist who transformed the thinking of some of the leading economic and climate thinkers of our times. Going Steady premieres this August - check back on this feed for updates!

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Gaya Herrington: This goes back to Herman Daley's work. Our economy is wholly embedded in our society, and our society is wholly embedded in the environment, and these days we almost see it as the opposite.

Tim Jackson: It was saying something which was profound from Herman's work, which was this idea that it's really welfare that matters. The measure of the GDP is just a measure of the busyness of the economy. And those two things are not necessarily the same.

Kate Raworth: The concepts that Herman Daley set out just blew me away. They were so antithetical to everything I'd been taught, and I never looked back

Terri Daly Stewart: Forward thinker, writer, and leader in ecological economics. That’s Herman. Dad: kind, guiding, and loving man who enjoyed his family, reading, music, and good food. [laughs]

Karen Daly: Huevos rancheros, for sure. He loved it.

Terri Daly Stewart: That's a great one, yeah.

Karen Daly: Loved it.

Terri Daly Stewart: Yeah, he did.

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David: Find out who Herman Daly really was, and how his work is helping us make the world better today. Going Steady with Herman Daly launches this August. Subscribe to the Cities 1.5 feed. You won't want to miss it.

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