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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Mathematician, statistician and economist (1906-1994) · Academics · Died at 88

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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He is best known today for his 1971 magnum opus 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.

A life in dates

1994Died30 October 19941976honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityAward1958Guggenheim FellowshipAward1950Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1906Born4 February 1906

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Awards

Honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur University1976
Guggenheim Fellowship1958
Fellow of the Econometric Society1950
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association

In common with Nicholas

Werner ArberBoth received honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityHal VarianBoth received Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic AssociationAbba P. LernerBoth received Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic AssociationChristopher ZeemanBoth received honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityYuan T. LeeBoth received honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityWilliam BaumolBoth received Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association

About this person

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He is best known today for his 1971 magnum opus 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. A progenitor and a paradigm founder in economics, Georgescu-Roegen's work was decisive for the establishing of ecological economics as an independent academic sub-discipline in economics.

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1994 · aged 88

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