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Clem Tisdell

Capital/natural resource substitution: the debate of Georgescu-Roegen (through Daly) with Solow/Stiglitz.

Degrowth

In response to the theories of Georgescu-Roegen, Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz noted that capital and labor can substitute for natural resources in production either directly or indirectly, ensuring sustained growth or at least sustainable development.

Entropy: A New World View

Entropy: A New World View is a non-fiction book by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, with an Afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

Reflecting EAEPE's open-ended theoretical perspectives, EAEPE's current honorary presidents include major scholars such as Janos Kornai, Richard R. Nelson, Douglass C. North, Luigi Pasinetti, while Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Edith T. Penrose, Kurt Rothschild, G.L.S. Shackle and Herbert A. Simon were EAEPE's honorary presidents in the past.

Haralamb H. Georgescu

At the time of his death in 1977, Georgescu was survived only by his then 27 year-old son, Christopher Georgesco, a sculptor now residing in Palm Springs (as of 2007).

Many biographies on Georgescu cite the Pasinetti Residence as his best example of residential work in the U.S. built for his client, Italian writer and academic P. M. Pasinetti, also known as Pier Maria Pasinetti, in 1958, this modernist house was featured in the January 1959 issue of Arts & Architecture Magazine.

Between 1959 and 1963, Georgescu was associated with Palm Springs-based designer Howard Lapham and designed several large residences, apartment buildings, restaurants and a country club in the desert resort communities in and around Palm Springs.

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Another scholarship allowed him to pursue his studies for two years at the University College in London with Karl Pearson.

After winning a scholarship, he went on to study at the University of Paris, where his interests turned towards statistics and economics.


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