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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (Costanza, 4 febbraio 1906 – Nashville, 30 ottobre 1994) è stato un economista rumeno, fondatore della bioeconomia (o economia ecologica) e della decrescita.

Biografia

Nato in Romania, si laureò in statistica all'Università Sorbona di Parigi, e successivamente ebbe importanti incarichi pubblici nel suo paese. Nel 1946 emigrò negli Stati Uniti d'America; in passato aveva già avuto modo di conoscere quel paese dove si era recato per studiare con Joseph A. Schumpeter che lo indirizzò verso gli studi in economia. Fu professore di economia presso la Vanderbilt University di Nashville. La sua opera principale è The Entropy Law and the Economic Process pubblicata nel 1971.

Pensiero economico

Georgescu-Roegen (in particolare nelle opere posteriori al 1970), sostiene che qualsiasi scienza che si occupi del futuro dell'uomo, come la scienza economica, deve tener conto della ineluttabilità delle leggi della fisica, ed in particolare del secondo principio della termodinamica, secondo il quale alla fine di ogni processo la qualità dell'energia (cioè la possibilità che l'energia possa essere ancora utilizzata da qualcun altro) è sempre peggiore rispetto all'inizio.

Qualsiasi processo economico che produce merci materiali diminuisce la disponibilità di energia nel futuro e quindi la possibilità futura di produrre altre merci e cose materiali. Inoltre, nel processo economico anche la materia si degrada ("matter matters, too"), ovvero diminuisce tendenzialmente la sua possibilità di essere usata in future attività economiche: una volta disperse nell'ambiente le materie prime precedentemente concentrate in giacimenti nel sottosuolo, queste possono essere reimpiegate nel ciclo economico solo in misura molto minore ed a prezzo di un alto dispendio di energia.

Materia ed energia, quindi, entrano nel processo economico con un grado di entropia relativamente bassa e ne escono con un'entropia più alta. Da ciò deriva la necessità di ripensare radicalmente la scienza economica, rendendola capace di incorporare il principio dell'entropia e in generale i vincoli ecologici. La teoria della bioeconomia è poi stata tradotta nel sistema economico della decrescita dallo stesso Georgescu-Roegen.

Bibliografia

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1971). The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (Full book accessible at Scribd). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674257801.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1975). "Energy and Economic Myths" (PDF). Southern Economic Journal. vol.41 n°3: pp.347–381. doi:10.2307/1056148. JSTOR 1056148.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1977). "The Steady State and Ecological Salvation: A Thermodynamic Analysis" (PDF). BioScience. vol.27 n°4: pp.266–270. doi:10.2307/1297702. JSTOR 1297702.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1979). "Comments on the Papers by Daly and Stiglitz" (Book preview at Questia). In Smith, V. Kerry (ed.). Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801822339.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1979). "Energy Analysis and Economic Valuation" (PDF). Southern Economic Journal. vol.45 n°4: pp.1023–1058. doi:10.2307/1056953. JSTOR 1056953. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-08.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1986). "The Entropy Law and The Economic Process in Retrospect" (PDF). Eastern Economic Journal. 12 (1).

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (2011) [1989]. "Quo vadis Homo sapiens sapiens?: A Query" (Book info page at publisher's site). In Bonaiuti, Mauro (ed.). From Bioeconomics to Degrowth: Georgescu-Roegen's "New Economics" in eight essays. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415587006.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1992). "Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen about Himself" (Book info page at publisher's site). In Szenberg, Michael (ed.). Eminent Economists: Their Life Philosophies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521382120.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1993). "Thermodynamics and We, the Humans", In Drăgan, Joseph C.; Demetrescu, Mihai C.; et al. (eds.). Entropy and Bioeconomics. Milan: Nagard Publishers.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1995) [1979]. Grinevald, Jacques; Rens, Ivo (eds.). La Décroissance: Entropie – Écologie – Économie (PDF contains full book (in French)) (2nd ed.). Paris: Sang de la terre.

• Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1984). "Feasible recipes versus viable technologies" (PDF). Atlantic Economic Journal. Heidelberg: Springer. vol.12 n°1: pp.21–31. doi:10.1007/

BF02309990.

• Ang, Frederic; van Passel, Steven (2012). "Beyond the Environmentalist's Paradox and the Debate on Weak versus Strong Sustainability". BioScience. cap.62 n°3: pp.251–259. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.3.6.

• Ayres, Robert U. (1999). "The second law, the fourth law, recycling and limits to growth" (PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.29 n°3: pp.473–483. doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(98)00098-6. hdl:10068/4266.

• Ayres, Robert U. (2007). "On the practical limits to substitution" (PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.61: pp.115–128. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.02.011.

• Ayres, Robert U. (2008). "Sustainability economics: Where do we stand?" (PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.67 n°2: pp.281–310. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.12.009.

• Beard, T. Randolph; Lozada, Gabriel (1999). Economics, Entropy and the Environment: The Extraordinary Economics of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (Book info page at publisher's site). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781840641226.

• Blaug, Mark (1985). Great Economists since Keynes (Book info page at publisher's site). Totawa: Barnes and Noble. ISBN 978-0389205173.

• Bonaiuti, Mauro, ed. (2011). From Bioeconomics to Degrowth: Georgescu-Roegen's "New Economics" in eight essays (Book info page at publisher's site). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415587006.

• Bonaiuti, Mauro (2008). "Searching for a Shared Imaginary — A Systemic Approach to Degrowth and Politics" (PDF contains all conference proceedings). In Flipo, Fabrice; Schneider, François (eds.). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity. Paris.

• Boulding, Kenneth E. (1981). Evolutionary Economics. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0803916487.

• Buenstorf, Guido (2004). The Economics of Energy and the Production Process: An Evolutionary Approach (Book info page at publisher's site). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

• Burkett, Paul (2006). Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political Economy (PDF contains full book). Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-9004148109.

• Cardwell, D.S.L. (1971). From Watt to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age. London: Heinemann.

• Cleveland, Cutler J.; Ruth, Matthias (1997). "When, where, and by how much do biophysical limits constrain the economic process? A survey of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's contribution to ecological economics" (Article accessible at Kundoc). Ecological Economics. vol.22 n°3: pp.203–223. doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(97)00079-7

• Cleveland, Cutler J. (1999). "Biophysical Economics: From Physiocracy to Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology". In Mayumi, Kozo; Gowdy, John M. (eds.). Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (Book info page at publisher's site).

• Costanza, Robert; et al. (1997). An Introduction to Ecological Economics (PDF contains full textbook). Florida: St. Lucie Press. ISBN 978-1884015724.

• Daly, Herman E., ed. (1980). Economics, Ecology, Ethics. Essays Towards a Steady-State Economy (PDF contains only the introductory chapter of the book) (2nd ed.). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 978-0716711780.

• Daly, Herman E. (1995). "On Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's contributions to economics: An obituary essay" (Article accessible at Academia). Ecological Economics. vol.13 n°3: pp.149–154. doi:10.1016/0921-8009(95)00011-w.

• Daly, Herman E. (1999). "How long can neoclassical economists ignore the contributions of Georgescu-Roegen?" (PDF contains full book). In Daly, Herman E. (2007) (ed.). Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development. Selected Essays of Herman Daly. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781847201010.

• Daly, Herman E. (2005). "Economics in a full world" (PDF contains full book). In Daly, Herman E. (2007) (ed.). Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development. Selected Essays of Herman Daly. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781847201010.

• Daly, Herman E.; Farley, Joshua (2011). Ecological Economics. Principles and Applications (PDF contains full textbook) (2nd ed.). Washington: Island Press. ISBN 9781597266819.

• Daly, Herman E. (2015). "Economics for a Full World". Great Transition Initiative. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

• Faber, Malte; et al. (1996). "Entropy: A Unifying Concept for Ecological Economics". (Book info page at publisher's site). In Faber, Malte; et al. (eds.). Ecological Economics: Concepts and Methods. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781858982830.

• Faber, Malte; et al. (1996). "The Use of the Entropy Concept in Ecological Economics" (Book info page at publisher's site). In Faber, Malte; et al. (eds.). Ecological Economics: Concepts and Methods. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781858982830.

• Flipo, Fabrice; Schneider, François, eds. (2008). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (PDF contains all conference proceedings). Paris.

• Floyd, Joshua (2007). "Thermodynamics, entropy and disorder in futures studies". Futures. vol.39 n°9: pp.1029–1044. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2007.03.011.

• Foster, John Bellamy (2015). "Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition". Great Transition Initiative. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

• Friend, Anthony (2008). "Economic de-growth analysed in Georgescu-Roegen's theoretical framework of the Economic Process with special reference to the System of Accounts for Global Entropy Production, SAGE-P" (PDF contains all conference proceedings). In Flipo, Fabrice; Schneider, François (eds.). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity. Paris. pp. 102–109.

• Giannantoni, Corrado (2005). "How Many 'Fourth' Principles Are There in Thermodynamics?" (PDF). In Brown, Mark T.; et al. (eds.). Emergy Synthesis 3: Theory and Applications of the Emergy Methodology. Gainesville, Florida.

• Gorz, André (1980) [1977]. Ecology as Politics Boston: South End Press. ISBN 978-0896080881.*

• Gowdy, John M.; Mesner, Susan (1998). "The Evolution of Georgescu-Roegen's Bioeconomics" Review of Social Economy. vol.56 n°2: pp.136–156. doi:10.1080/00346769800000016

• Grinevald, Jacques (2008). "Introduction to Georgescu-Roegen and Degrowth" (PDF contains all conference proceedings). In Flipo, Fabrice; Schneider, François (eds.). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity. Paris. pp. 14–17.

• Grundmann, Reiner (1991). Marxism and Ecology (Full book accessible at Academia). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198273141.

• Hammond, Geoffrey P.; Winnett, Adrian B. (2009). "The Influence of Thermodynamic Ideas on Ecological Economics: An Interdisciplinary Critique" (PDF). Sustainability. vol.1 n°4: pp.1195–1225. doi:10.3390/su1041195.

• Iglesias, Samuel Lee (2009). The Miscommunications and Misunderstandings of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (PDF). Duke University, Durham: Honors Thesis.

• Kallis, Giorgos; et al. (2015). "Introduction" (PDF). In D'Alisa, Giacomo; et al. (eds.). Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era (Book info page containing download samples). London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138000766.

• Kedia, Shailly (2013). "Recognizing bold and unconventional thinking". Green Growth and Development Quarterly. vol.1 n°3: pp.41–44.
• Kerschner, Christian (2010). "Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy" (PDF). Journal of Cleaner Production. vol.18 n°6: pp.544–551. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.10.019.

• Khalil, Elias L. (2004). "The Three Laws of Thermodynamics and the Theory of Production". Journal of Economic Issues. 38 (1): 201–226. doi:10.1080/00213624.2004.11506672.

• Kåberger, Tomas; Månsson, Bengt (2001). "Entropy and economic processes — physics perspectives" (PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.36: pp.165–179. doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(00)00225-1.

• Latouche, Serge (2009) [2007]. Farewell to Growth (PDF contains full book). Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745646169.

• Levallois, Clément (2010). "Can de-growth be considered a policy option? A historical note on Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Club of Rome" (PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.69 n°11: pp.2271–2278. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.06.020. hdl:1765/20130.

• Markantonatou, Maria (2013). "From 'The Limits to Growth' to 'Degrowth': Discourses of Critique of Growth in the Crises of the 1970s and 2008" (PDF). DFG-KP Working Paper. 5. ISSN 2194-136X.

• Martínez-Alier, Juan (1987). Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society(Book info page at publisher's site). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

• Martínez-Alier, Juan; et al. (2010). "Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm" (PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.69 n°9: pp.1741–1747. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.017.

• Mayumi, Kozo; Gowdy, John M. (1999). "Introduction: theory and reality — the life, work and thought of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen" (Book info page at publisher's site). In Mayumi, Kozo; Gowdy, John M. (eds.). Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781858986678.

• Mayumi, Kozo (2001). The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen (PDF contains full book). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415235235.

• Mayumi, Kozo (2009). "Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: His Bioeconomics Approach to Development and Change". Development and Change. vol.40 n°6: pp.1235–1254. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01603.x.

• Meadows, Dennis L.; et al. (1972). The Limits to Growth (PDF contains full book). New York: Universe Books. ISBN 978-0876631652.

• Miernyk, William H. (1999). "Economic growth theory and the Georgescu-Roegen paradigm" (Book info page at publisher's site). In Mayumi, Kozo; Gowdy, John M. (eds.). Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

• Mirowski, Philip (1992). "Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen". In Samuels, Warren J. (ed.). New Horizons in Economic Thought. Appraisals of Leading Economists. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1852783792.

• Neumayer, Eric (2013). Weak versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms (Book preview at publisher's site). International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 14 (4th ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. doi:10.1108/ijshe.2013.24914daa.009. hdl:10068/543195. ISBN 9781781007075.

• Perez-Carmona, Alexander (2013). "Growth: A Discussion of the Margins of Economic and Ecological Thought" (Article accessible at SlideShare). In Meuleman, Louis (ed.). Transgovernance. Advancing Sustainability Governance. Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 83–161. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28009-2_3. ISBN 9783642280085.

• Rammelt, Crelis F.; Crisp, Phillip (2014). "A systems and thermodynamics perspective on technology in the circular economy" (PDF). Real-world Economics Review. vol.68: pp.25–40.

• Rifkin, Jeremy (1980). Entropy: A New World View (PDF contains only the title and contents pages of the book). New York: The Viking Press. ISBN 978-0670297177.

• Ruth, Matthias (1993). Integrating Economics, Ecology and Thermodynamics (Book info page at publisher's site). Ecology, Economy & Environment. 3. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1899-8. ISBN 9780792323778.

• Røpke, Inge (2004). "The early history of modern ecological economics" (PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.50 n°3–4: pp.293314.doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.02.012

• Røpke, Inge (2005). "Trends in the development of ecological economics from the late 1980s to the early 2000s"(PDF). Ecological Economics. vol.55 n°2: pp.262–290. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.10.010.

• Samuelson, Paul A. (1999). "Foreword" (Book info page at publisher's site). In Mayumi, Kozo; Gowdy, John M. (eds.). Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

• Schmitz, John E.J. (2007). The Second Law of Life: Energy, Technology, and the Future of Earth As We Know It (Author's science blog, based on his textbook). Norwich: William Andrew Publishing. ISBN 978-0815515371.

• Solow, Robert M. (1974). "The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics". In Dorfman, Robert; Dorfman, Nancy S.(1977) (eds.). Economics of the Environment. Selected Readings (2nd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

• Spash, Clive (1999). "The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics" (PDF). Environmental Values. vol.8 n°4: pp.413–435. doi:10.3197/096327199129341897.

• Spengler, Joseph J. (1976). "The Population Problem: Its Changing Character and Dimensions". In Tang, Anthony M.; et al. (eds.). Evolution, Welfare and Time in Economics: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books.

• Stiglitz, Joseph E. (1979). "A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources" (Book preview at Questia). In Smith, V. Kerry (ed.). Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801822339.

• Tang, Anthony M.; et al. (1976). Evolution, Welfare and Time in Economics: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books.

• Turner, R. Kerry (1993). "Sustainability: Principles and Practice". In Turner, R. Kerry (ed.). Sustainable Environmental Economics and Management: Principles and Practice. London: Belhaven Press. ISBN 978-0470221631.

• Antonio Valero (1991), "An interview with Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen", location: Nashville, Tennessee). Boletín Cf+S (4). Retrieved 2 September 2016. (Introduction to the interview in Spanish (Castilian), the interview itself in English

• Valero Capilla, Antonio; Valero Delgado, Alicia (2014). Thanatia: The Destiny of the Earth's Mineral Resources. A Thermodynamic Cradle-to-Cradle Assessment (PDF contains only the introductory chapter of the book). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. doi:10.1111/jiec.12426. ISBN 9789814273930.

• Washida, Toyoaki (1998). "Material Dissipative Conditions and the Impossibility of Complete Recycling" (PDF). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. vol.9 n°3: pp.271–288. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.485.1890. doi:10.1016/s0954-349x(98)00041-1.

• Young, Jeffrey T. (1991). "Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity?". Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. vol.21 n°2: pp.169–179. doi:10.1016/0095-0696(91)90040-p.

• "The Georgescu-Roegen Prize". Southern Economic Association

Libri di Georgescu-Roegen in lingua italiana

• Energia e miti economici, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1998.
• Bioeconomia, Verso un'altra economia ecologicamente e socialmente sostenibile, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003.

Opere di Georgescu-Roegen

• Analytical Economics: issues and problems, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1966, tr. it. parziale in col titolo: Analisi economica e processo economico, Firenze: Sansoni 1973 .
• The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1971.
• "Energy and economic myths", Pergamon
• "The entropy law and the economic problem", in: H. Daly (ed.), "Toward a steady-state economy", San Francisco, Freeman, 1973, p. 37-49; traduzione italiana in N. Georgescu-Roegen, Energia e miti economici, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri 1998, p. 25-38.
• "The entropy law and the economic process", Cambridge (USA): Harvard University Press, 1971;
• "Process analysis and the neoclassical theory of production" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 54, (2), 279-294, maggio 1972)
• "Energy and economic myths", Conferenza alla Yale University, 8 novembre 1972; Southern Economic Journal, 41, 347-381 (1975); The Ecologist, 5, (5), 164-174 (June 1975), e 5, (7), 242-252 (August-September 1975); traduzione italiana col titolo: "Energia e miti economici", in: "Energia e miti economici", 1998, p. 39-92
• "L'economia politica come estensione della biologia"; Conferenza tenuta all'Università di Firenze il 14 maggio 1974, Note Economiche (Monte dei Paschi di Siena), 2, 5-20 (1974)
• "Mechanistic dogma and economics", Methodology and Science, 6, (3), 174-184, 1974.
• "Dynamic models and economic growth", Economie appliquee, 27, (4), 529-563 (1974); World Development, 3, (11-12), 765-783 (1975); anche in: "Energy and economic myths", p. 235-253; in: G. Schwoediauer (editor), "Equilibrium and disequilibrium in economic theory", Dotrdrecht, Reidel, 1977, p. 413-499
• "Bioeconomic aspects of entropy", in: L. Kubat e J. Zeman (editors), "Entropy and information in science and philosophy", Prague, Academia, 1975, Elsevier, 1976, p. 125-142; traduzione inedita di Tonino Drago col titolo: "Termodinamica, economia e programmazione energetica", 1980
• "Technology and economic policy", in: H.L. Hartman (editor), "Proceedings of centennial Symposium on Technology and public policy, Vanderbilt University, 6-7 November 1975", Nashville (USA), Vanderbilt University, 1975, p. 43-50
• "Economics or bioeconomics", American Economic Association Meetings, Dallas, 29 dicembre 1976 "A different economic perspective", Paper read at the Boston Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 21 February 1976
• "Energy and economic myths. Institutional and analytical economic essays", New York, Pergamon, 1976; traduzione parziale in: "Energia e miti economici", Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1998 * "Economics and mankind's ecological problems", in: "U.S. Economic growth from 1976 to 1986. Prospects, problems and patterns", Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Washington, DC, 1976, vol. 7, p. 62-91
• "Bioeconomics: a new look at the nature of the economic activity", in: L. Junker (editor), "The political economy of food and energy", Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1977, p. 105-134
• "What thermodynamics and biology can teach economists", Conferenza alla Atlantic Economic Association, Washington, 15 ottobre 1976; Atlantic Economic Journal, 5, (1), 13-21 (March 1977)
• "The steady-state and ecological salvation: a thermodynamic analysis", BioScience, 27, (4), 266-270 (April 1977); traduzione italiana col titolo: "Lo stato stazionario e la salvezza ecologica: un'analisi termodinamica", in: Economia e Ambiente, 3, (1), 5-17 (gennaio-marzo 1984); nuova traduzione italiana in "Energia e miti economici", 1998, p. 93-107
• "Matter matters too", in: K.D. Wilson (editor), "Prospects for growth: changing expectations for the future", New York, Praeger, 1977, p. 293-313
• "The role of matter in the substitution of energies" (Third International Colloquium on Petroleum Economics, Quebec, 3-5 November 1977), in: A. Ayoub (editor), "Energy, international cooperation on crisis", Quebec, Presses de l'Universite Laval 1979, p. 119-131
• "Inequality, limits and growth from a bioeconomic viewpoint", Review of Social Economy, 35, 361-375 (December 1977), tr. it Bioeconomia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri 2004.
• "Matter: a resource ignored by thermodynamics", World Conference on future sources of organic materials (Toronto, 10-13 July 1978); in: L.E. St.Pierre e G.R. Brown (editors), "Future sources of organic raw materials CHEMRAWN I", Oxford, Pergamon 1980, p.79-87 "Technology assessment: the case of the direct use of solar energy", Atlantic Economic Journal, 6, (4), p. 15-21 (December 1978)
• "De l'economie politique a la bioeconomie", Revue d'Economie Politique, 88, (3), 338-381(1978)
• "La decroissance", Lausanne, Editions Pierre-Marcel Favre, 1979; nuova edizione, Paris, Editions Sang de la Terre, 1995 (raccolta di numerosi saggi di Georgescu-Roegen, a cura di J. Grinevald) * "Energy and matter in mankind's technological circuit", Journal of Business Administration, 10, 107-127 (Fall 1978) in: P. N. Nemetz (editor), "Energy policy: the global challenge", Toronto, Butterworth, 1979, p. 107-127
• "Myths about energy and matter", Lexington Conference on Energy, April 27-28 1978; Growth and Change, 10, (1), 16-23 (January 1979)
• "Energy analysis and economic valuation"; Southern Economic Journal, 45, (4), 1023-1058 (April 1979); traduzione italiana col titolo: "Analisi energetica e valutazione economica", e con modifiche, in: "Energia e miti economici", 1998, p. 39-92
• "Comments on the papers by Daly and Stiglitz"; in: V. Kerry Smith (editor), "Scarcity and growth reconsidered", Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, p. 95-105
• "Methods in economic science"; Journal of Economic Issues, 13, 317-328 (June 1979)
• "Afterword", in: J. Rifkin, "Entropy: a new world view", New York, Viking, 1980, 261-269; traduzione italiana col titolo "Postfazione" in J. Rifkin, "Entropia", Milano, Mondadori, p. 283-291; nuova edizione ampliata in J. Rifkin, "Entropy in the greenhouse world", New York, Bantham Books, 1989, p. 299-307
• "Energetic dogma, energetic economics, and viable technologies", in: "Advances in the economics of energy and resources", JAI Press, 4, 1-39 (1982); traduzione italiana in "Energia e miti economici", 1998, p. 161-204
• "La degradation entropique et la destinee prometheique de la technologie humaine", Economie Appliquee, 35, (1/2), 1-26 (1982); Entropie, numero speciale, 76-86 (1982); traduzione italiana col titolo: "Economia e degradazione della materia: il destino prometeico della tecnologia umana", Economia e Ambiente, 4, (4), 5-29 (ottobre-dicembre 1985).

Studi di altri autori

• Grinevald, Jacques "Georgescu-Roegen, bioeconomia e biosfera" in: Marco Bonaiuti (a cura di), Obiettivo decrescita, Bologna: EMI 2004.
• Zamagni, Stefano Georgescu-Roegen. I fondamenti della teoria del consumatore" Bologna: Etas, 1979.
• Mayumi, K. 1995. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994): an admirable epistemologist. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 6: 115-120.
• Mayumi,K. and Gowdy, J. M. (eds.) 1999. Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Mayumi, K. 2001. The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen. London: Routledge.
• Missemer, A. 2013. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, pour une révolution bioéconomique. Lyon : ENS Éditions. url
• Zamberlan, Stefano. Dall’utilità al godimento della vita: la Bioeconomia di Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Pisa IPEM, 2007. http://www.economiaeambiente.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ZAMBERLAN-Dall%E2%80%99utilit%C3%A0-al-godimento-della-vita-la-Bioeconomia-di-Georgescu-Roegen.pdf

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