reflecting concerns about the Earth’s carrying capacity, led to the rise of a new discipline of ecological economics (Daly 1980; Costanza 1997; Daly and Farley 2010; Martínez-Alier 2015). This has eventually led to advocacy of not just economies without any growth but ones deliberately trying to reduce overall economic output, a shift awkwardly labeled as de-growth. Book titles convey these sentiments: Living within Limits (Hardin 1992); Beyond Growth (Daly 1996); Prosperity without Growth (Jackson 2009); From Bioeconomics to Degrowth (Georgescu-Roegen and Bonaiuti 2011); The Economics of
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