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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

1906 - 1994

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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born Nicolae Georgescu, 4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994) 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. In the history of economic thought, Georgescu-Roegen was the first economist of some standing to theorise on the premise that all of earth's mineral resources will eventually be exhausted at some indeterminate future point. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen is the 185th most popular economist (up from 212th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Romania (up from 187th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Economist.

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Among economists, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen ranks 185 out of 414. Before him are Eli Heckscher, János Kornai, Wilhelm Röpke, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Myron Scholes, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. After him are Michel Camdessus, Walter Eucken, Peter Navarro, Gustav Cassel, Kenneth E. Boulding, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

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Among people born in 1906, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen ranks 118. Before him are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Dita Parlo, Enrico Mattei, Paolo Stoppa, and Wilhelm Boger. After him are Wolf Albach-Retty, Denis de Rougemont, Philippe Halsman, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Musa Cälil, and Franz Waxman. Among people deceased in 1994, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen ranks 113. Before him are Roberto Burle Marx, Massimo Troisi, Walter Lantz, Marcel Bich, Kuvempu, and Kevin Carter. After him are Mario Brega, Giovanni Spadolini, Antoine Pinay, Dick Sargent, Heinz Rühmann, and Aleksandar Petrović.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen ranks 162 out of 844. Before him are Victor Stănculescu (1928), Stephen Pongracz (1582), Constantin Sănătescu (1885), Gheorghe Popescu (1967), Ion I. C. Brătianu (1864), and Gheorghe Tătărescu (1886). After him are Steve Holmes (1961), Petru Rareș (1487), Saul Steinberg (1914), János Arany (1817), Serge Moscovici (1925), and Nicolae Grigorescu (1838).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Romania

Among economists born in Romania, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen ranks 1. After him are Sevil Shhaideh (1964).

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