Pre-EE classic books
The Great Transformation – Karl Polanyi, 1944.
The Social Costs of Private Enterprise – William Kapp, 1950.
The Costs of Economic Growth – E. J. Mishan, 1967.
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process – Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 1971.
The Limits to Growth – Dennis Meadows et al., 1972.
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered – E.F. Schumacher, 1973.
The Social Limits to Growth – Fred Hirsh, 1976.
The Joyless Economy – Tibor Scitovsky. 1976
EE methodology
Profit maximization and the extinction of animal species – Colin Clark, 1973. Journal of Political Economy.
The methodological basis of institutional economics: Pattern model, storytelling, and holism – C.K. Wilber and R.S. Harrison, 1978. Journal of Economic Issues.
Methods in economic science – Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 1979. Journal of Economic Issues.
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme – Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, 1979. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.Â
Clio and the economics of QWERTY – Paul David, 1985. American Economic Review Proceedings.
The case for methodological pluralism – Richard Norgaard, 1989. Ecological Economics.
The ideology of efficiency: Searching for a theory of policy analysis – Daniel Bromley, 1990. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Walrasian economics in retrospect – Sam Bowles and Herbert Gintis, 2000. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics – Daniel Camerer, George Loewenstein, D. Prelic, 2005. Journal of Economic Literature.
Social Evolution
Stone Age Economics – Marshall Sahlins, 1972. Chicago, Aldine.
Egalitarian Societies  – James Woodburn, 1982. Man.
The worst mistake in the history of the human race – Jared Diamond, 1987. Discover Magazine.
The Collapse of Complex Societies – Joseph Tainter, 1988. Cambridge University Press.
Human groups as units of selection – D.S. Wilson, 1997. Science.
Symbiotic Planet – Lynn Margulis, 1998. New York, Basic Books.
A Short History of Progress – Ronald Wright, 2004. Philadelphia, Carroll & Graf
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – Jared Diamond, 2005. New York, Viking.
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution – P. Richerson and R. Boyd, 2005. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brain and Culture – B. Wexler, 2006. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
A New Green History of the World – Clive Ponting, 2007. New York, Penguin.
The weirdest people in the world? – J. Henrich, S. Heine, A. Norenzayan, 2010. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
The Social Conquest of Earth – E.O. Wilson, 2012. New York, W.W. Norton.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind – Y. Harari, 2014. New York, HarperCollins.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality – Walter Scheidel, 2017. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States – James Scott, 2017. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.
The Uninhabitable Earth – David Wallace-Wells, 2017. New York, Duggan Books.
Ultrasocial: The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future – John Gowdy, 2021. Cambridge University Press.
Beyond the Economics of More: The Place of Consumption in Ecological Economics – John Lintott, Ecological Economics, 25, 1998.
How Much are Nature’s Services Worth? – Walter E. Westman, 1977. Science.
Special Section: Forum on Valuation of Ecosystem Services – Ecological Economics, 25, 1998
Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better Than No Number? – Peter A. Diamond and Jerry A. Hausman, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(4), 1994
Valuing the Environment Through Contingent Valuation – W. Michael Hanemann, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(4), 1994
Sustainability and Environmental Valuation – M.S. Common, R.K. Blamey, and T.W. Norton, Environmental Values, 2, 1993
Measurement of Social Well-being: Alternatives to Gross Domestic Product – Richard W. England, Ecological Economics, 25, 1998
Should We Pursue Measurement of the Natural Capital Stock? – Richard W. England, Ecological Economics, 27, 1998
Green Accounting and Economic Policy – Salah El Serafy, Ecological Economics, 21, 1997
Impact of Population Growth – Paul R. Ehrlich and John P. Holdren, Science, 1971
The Ecological Significance of Biological Diversity – Martin Holdgate, Ambio, 25, 1996
The Economic Growth Debate: What Some Economists Have Learned But Many Have Not – Herman E. Daly, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 14, 1987
Population Extinction and Saving Biodiversity – Paul R. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily, Ambio, 22, 1993
Ecological Economics: Reintegrating the Study of Humans and Nature – Robert Costanza, Ecological Applications, 6(4), 1996
The Value of Biodiversity – Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Ambio, 21, 1992
Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment – Kenneth Arrow, et al., Science, 1995
Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity? Yes, of Course it is! – Herman E. Daly, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 23, 1992
Beckerman and his Critics on Strong and Weak Sustainability: Confusing Concepts and Conditions – M.S. Common, Environmental Values, 5, 1996
Sustainable Development: Is it a Useful Concept? – Wilfred Beckerman, Environmental Values, 3, 1994
The Role of Thermodynamics in the Study of Economic and Ecological Systems – Shmuel Amir, Ecological Economics, 10, 1994
Sustainable Development Concepts: An Economic Analysis – John Pezzey, World Bank Environment Paper Number 2, 1992
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process – Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Iuniverse Inc. 1999 (BOOK Reprint, First Published 1971)
What Thermodynamics and Biology can Teach Economists, Atlantic Economic Journal, 5, 1977
Energy Analysis and Economic Valuation – Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Southern Economic Journal, 45(4), 1979
Strong Versus Weak Sustainability: Economics, Natural Sciences, and Consilience – Robert Ayres, Jeroen van den Bergh, John Gowdy, Environmental Ethics, 2001
The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen – Kozo Mayumi, Routledge Publishers, 2001
EE foundational articles
Why is economics not an evolutionary science? – Thorstein Veblen, 1898. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science? on JSTOR
The economics of the coming spaceship earth – Kenneth Boulding, 1966. http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3621/BOULDING.HTM (ub.edu)
The tragedy of the commons – Garret Hardin, 1968. Science. The Tragedy of the Commons (mtu.edu)
The original affluent society – Marshall Sahlins, 1972, in: Stone Age Economics The Original Affluent Society–Marshall Sahlins (appropriate-economics.org)
Energy and economic myths – Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 1975, Southern                                                                                Economic Journal. Energy and Economic Myths (uvm.edu)Â
The concept of the steady-state economy – Herman Daly, 1977. In: Steady State Economics.
Forgotten fundamentals of the energy crisis – Albert Bartlet, 1978. American Journal of Physics. Background and contents – Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis overview – article by Al Bartlett
General Books about Ecological and Alternative Economics
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by EF Schumacher
What Then Must We Do? by Gar Alperovitz
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene, Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman, eds.
Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, by Rob Dietz, Dan O’Neill, Herman Daly
Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action, by Elinor Ostrom
Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, by Kate Raworth
Behavioral Economics
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by R. Thaler and C.Sunstein
Bio-Physical Limitations
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman Daly
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature by Carl McDaniel and John Gowdy
Planetary Economics by Michael Grubb
Development
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Poor Economics by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, and Alternatives by Richard Peet and Elaine Hartwick
The Kochia Chronicles by Khanjan Mehta