Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born Nicolae Georgescu, 4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994) was a Romanian American mathematician, statistician and economist. He was best known today for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. He was a key figure in the creation of ecological economics.

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Nicolae Georgescu
Born	4 February 1906 Constanţa, Kingdom of Romania
Died	30 October 1994 (1994-10-31) (aged 87) Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Nationality	Romanian
Alma mater	University of Bucharest, Paris Institute of Statistics, University College London
Known for	Utility theory, consumer choice theory, production theory, biophysical economics, ecological economics
Awards	The Harvie Branscomb Award
Scientific career
Fields	Economics, mathematics, statistics
Institutions	University of Bucharest(1932–46), Harvard University(1934–36), Vanderbilt University(1950–76), Graduate Institute of International Studies(1974), University of Strasbourg(1977–78)
Academic advisors	Traian Lalescu, Émile Borel, Karl Pearson, Joseph Schumpeter
Doctoral students	Herman Daly
Other notable students	Kozo Mayumi, Muhammad Yunus
Influences	Aristotle, Rudolf Clausius, Ernst Mach
Influenced	Herman Daly, Kozo Mayumi, Jeremy Rifkin, Cutler J. Cleveland, John M. Gowdy, André Gorz, Joan Martinez Alier, Jacques Grinevald, Serge Latouche, Malte Michael Faber, Mauro Bonaiuti

Several economists have hailed Georgescu-Roegen as a man who lived well ahead of his time, and some historians of economic thought have proclaimed the ingenuity of his work.

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Media

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  City of Constanța in 1909

• University of Bucharest c. 1921

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  Pearson's field of interests coincided with Georgescu-Roegen's own.

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  Schumpeter became Georgescu-Roegen's mentor at Harvard.

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  During most of the war, Romania was an Axis power allied with Nazi Germany "... against Bolshevism."

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  As the communists rose to power, the leading members of the National Peasants' Party were rounded up and put on show trial in 1947. Many were sentenced to life imprisonment.

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  After the Old Main fire of 1905, the building was rebuilt, and renamed Kirkland Hall. It serves as the main building of Vanderbilt's administration.

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  Meadows was the director of the Club of Rome project at MIT in 1970–72.

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  Martínez-Alier has been a driving force behind both ecological economics and the degrowth movement. He has also published a historical study of various ecological theorists preceding Georgescu-Roegen.

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  The sun will continue to shine on earth for billions of years to come.

Other websites

• "Bibliography of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen". Associazione Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Retrieved 19 October 2016. (Italian website)
• Antonio Valero (1991). "An interview with Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen" (Location: Nashville, Tennessee). Boletín Cf+S (4). Retrieved 15 August 2016. (Introduction to the interview in Spanish (Castilian), the interview itself in English)
• Sylvia Nasar (1994). Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Leading Economist, Dies at 88. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/05/obituaries/nicholas-georgescu-roegen-leading-economist-dies-at-88.html. Retrieved 15 August 2016.  (Obituary)
• Robert Nadeau (2008). "Environmental and ecological economics". The Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved 11 February 2017. (A thorough account of the historical development of ecological economics, including Georgescu-Roegen's contribution)
• Rex Weyler (2010). "Deep Green: Entropy and Ecology". Greenpeace International. Retrieved 15 August 2016. (A brief perspective on Georgescu-Roegen's entropy view)
• Lars P. Syll (2012). "Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Nobel Prize in economics". WordPress. Retrieved 23 November 2017. (Blog lamenting the fact that Georgescu-Roegen was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics)
• Jonathan Mingle (2015). "Pope Francis would love the obscure theories of this dead Romanian economist". Quartz. Retrieved 15 August 2016. (Article speculating on one possible source of inspiration for the pontiff's controversial encyclical on ecological concerns)
• Martin Sers (2017). "Georgescu-Roegen: The Genius Pessimist and the Philosopher of Process". Economics for the Anthropocene. Retrieved 31 August 2017. (Article shedding some light on 'the famous entropy pessimist')
• "Facebook profile of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen". Facebook. Retrieved 15 August 2016.