Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 30 years ago |
Date of birth | February 4,1906 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Constanța |
Romania | |
Date of died | October 30,1994 |
Died | Nashville |
Tennessee | |
United States | |
Other notable students | Muhammad Yunus |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada |
Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award | |
Influence | Joseph Schumpeter |
Ernst Mach | |
Rudolf Clausius | |
Maurice Allais | |
Education | University of Paris |
Known for | consumer choice theory |
production theory | |
biophysical economics | |
ecological economics | |
consumer choice | |
Books | The Entropy Law and the Economic Process |
Energy and Economic Myths: Institutional and Analytical Economic Essays | |
Analytical economics | |
From Bioeconomics to Degrowth: Georgescu-Roegen's 'New Economics' in Eight Essays | |
Academ advisor | Traian Lalescu, Émile Borel, Karl Pearson, Joseph Schumpeter |
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ID | 1877292 |
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Life story
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He is best known today for his 1971 The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural resources are irreversibly degraded when put to use in economic activity.