1. Economics for Sustainability
Sustainability: Meeting the needs of the present without diminishing opportunities for the future

2. Economic Worldview: We only need to get the prices right!

3. Ecological Worldview The Hierarchy of Sustainability
Nature
Society
Economy
Internalizing “externalities” does not address values that are intrinsic “non-economic,” meaning purely social and ecological values, thus leaving nature and society vulnerable to economic exploitation.

4. It takes getting the principles right!
Ecological Principles:
holism, diversity, interdependence
Social Principles:
trust, kindness, courage
Economic Principles:
scarcity, efficiency, sovereignty

5. Everything isn’t a matter of economics.
Economic value: Individual, Instrumental, Impersonal
Social Value: Interpersonal, Instrumental, Personal
Ethical Value: Communal, Non-instrumental, Impersonal

6. Hierarchy of Intentionality
Ethical
Social
Economic
Internalizing “externalities” does not address values that are intrinsic “non-economic,” meaning purely social and ecological values, thus leaving nature and society vulnerable to economic exploitation.

7. Hierarchy of Economic Sustainability is Hierarchy of Human Happiness
Ethical, Social, Economic … Sustainable