Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword by Paul Samuelson 1. Introduction 2. How Long can Neoclassical Economists Ignore the Contributions of Georgescu-Roegen? 3. From Political Economy to Political Ecology 4. Georgescu-Roegen’s Evolutionary Economics 5. Economic Growth Theory and the Georgescu-Roegen Paradigm 6. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s Approach to Economic Value 7. Georgescu-Roegen on Consumer Theory 8. Biophysical Economics 9. From Agrarianism to Entropy 10. Embodied Energy Analysis, Sraffa’s Analysis, Georgescu-Roegen’s Flow–fund Model and Viability of Solar Technology 11. Production and Time 12. A Theory of Resilient Flow–fund Linkages 13. The Passage from Entropy to Thermodynamic Indeterminacy 14. Biophysical Roots of ‘Enjoyment of Life’ According to Georgescu-Roegen’s Bioeconomic Paradigm 15. The Role of Entropy and Energy in Natural Resource Economics 16. Five Conditions for Sustainable Living Systems Bibliography Index

About the Author

Edited by Kozo Mayumi, Professor of Bioeconomics, The University of Tokushima, Japan and John M. Gowdy, Rittenhouse Professor of Humanities and Social Science, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US

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