Sustainability?
John Ikerd’s Books
Answer the Big Questions of Sustainability
Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter
of Common Sense
Available from Kumarian Press Inc.
* Why is today’s capitalist economy unsustainable?
* What are the essentials of a sustainable economy?
* How can we manage sustainable organizations?
* What are the three economies of sustainability?
* How can we manage a sustainable economy?
Return
to Common Sense
Available from R. T.
Edwards Publishers
* How did America become an unsustainable society?
* What is the new vision of societal sustainability?
* What does common sense have to do with sustainability?
* Why do we need revolution rather than evolution?
* How can we achieve the victory of sustainability?
Small Farms are Real Farms: Sustaining People Through Agriculture
Available from Acres USA, Inc.
* Why is America experiencing a small farm revolution?
* Why is it important to sustain people, not just agriculture?
* How can small farms be managed for sustainability?
* What are the economic keys to small farm sustainability?
* Why does America need small farms for food security?
Crisis and Opportunity:
Sustainability in American Agriculture
Available
from University of Nebraska Press
* How is crisis and agriculture related to sustainability?
* What is driving the sustainable agriculture movement?
* What are the key principles of sustainable farming?
* What’s different about the new American farmers?
* How can we create a new sustainable food system?
John Ikerd
Professor Emeritus of
Agricultural Economics
University of Missouri
John Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm, worked in
private industry for a time, earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in agricultural
economics, and served on the faculties of four major state universities during
his 30-year academic career - North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State
University, University of Georgia, and University of Missouri.
Dr. Ikerd spent the first half of his academic career
as a conventional neoclassical economist, encouraging his students and the
farmer with whom he worked to focus on the economic bottom-line and trust the
markets to transform their pursuit of individual self-interests into the
greater good of society. In searching for the roots of the farm financial
crisis of the 1980s, however, he came to the conclusion that not only was
American agriculture not sustainable but neither was the American economy or
society. He came to understand that Americans are rapidly depleting the
productivity of the natural and human resources from which all economic value
and material well-being are derived. He eventually concluded that change is not
an option; it is a necessity.
Dr. Ikerd spent the second half of his academic career
working with the sustainable agriculture movement. He wrote extensively on the
subject of sustainability, including chapters in books and professional
journals, before turning to writing for farmers, food consumers, and members of
the general public. Since retiring from the University of Missouri in 2000, Dr.
Ikerd has traveled extensively across the North American continent and beyond,
speaking and writing about the critical questions of sustainability.
More than one-hundred of his papers and additional
biographical information are available on his university website at http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj. His
books are available directly from the publishers, by clicking on the links
above, or through Amazon.com and other
online booksellers.
John
Ikerd
5121 S. Brock Rodgers Rd
Columbia, MO 65201
phone: 573-874-0408
email: JEIkerd@centurytel.net