Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born Nicolae Georgescu (Constanţa, Romania, 4 February 1906 - Nashville, Tennessee, 30 October 1994) was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He introduced into economics, among other things, the concept of entropy from physics and did foundational work which later developed into evolutionary economics. His work contributed significantly to bioeconomics and to ecological economics.

External links

• Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's biography at The History of Economic Thought website
• John Gowdy and Susan Mesner (1998), The Evolution of Georgescu-Roegen's Bioeconomics, Review of Social Economy Vol LVI No. 2

1906 births | 1994 deaths | Romanian mathematicians | Romanian economists

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