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Economics, entropy and the environment : the extraordinary economics of Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen / T. Randolph Beard, Gabriel A. Lozada.
Lippincott Library HB119.G43 B4 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, T. Randolph (Thomas Randolph)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas.
- Economists--United States.
- Economists.
- United States.
- Environmental economics.
- Entropy.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 155 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [1999]
- Contents:
- 2. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: a scholarly refugee 9
- 3. Georgescu-Roegen's epistemology and economic methodology 20
- 4. Georgescu-Roegen and "normal science" 45
- 5. An economist's primer on thermodynamics 83
- 6. Thermodynamics and Georgescu-Roegen's economics 99
- 7. Bioeconomics 120.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index.
- "Selected bibliography of Georgesçu-Roegen": pages 141-146.
- ISBN:
- 1840641223
- OCLC:
- 41958997
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