Course objectives This course will lead you to the limits of conventional economics facing ‘externalities’ of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation. We will review environmentalist critique of economics as formalistic ‘puzzle solving’ that ignores the threats of environmental and social collapse. Are we reaching the limits of the planet’s carrying capacity? What do the data tell us? Can ‘sustainable development’ or a ‘greened’ eco–nomics provide a new world vision? How can we introduce sustainability in mainstream micro- and macro- economics? Does globalization help or hinder sustainable development? These are some of questions we will discuss. To lend perspective to interrelated economic, environmental and social concerns the course will progress from theory, via measurement and modeling, to policy. Chapter numbers in brackets refer to the main text of Sustainability Economics. 1. Introduction and overview [Ch. 1] Environmental doom: have we reached the limits? 2. Schools of eco–nomic thought [Chs. 1, 5] Environmentalists and economists: a persisting polarization? 3. Sustainable development: fig leaf or cornucopia? [Chs. 9, 10] Has the paradigm run its course? ANNEX: Syllabus for a course of sustainability economics