…one of the most important books of the 20th century. 5. Formulator of the maxim, "anyone who believes in infinite growth on a finite planet is either mad or an economist". 6. Georgescu-Roegen's The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is excellent, but also famously impenetrable. Still recommended. The work is in many ways similar to Frederick Soddy's, though G-R doesn't cite this, see: Wealth, Virtual Wealth, and Debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth,_Virtual_Wealth_and_Deb...…
…read him until now, to be honest, but this discussion and some other recent threads from HN make me really want to start reading Georgescu-Roegen's work [1]: > He is best known today for his 1971 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…
还有尼古拉斯·乔治斯库-罗根几乎所有的经济学相关著作。摘自他的 Wikipedia 页面：> 他如今最广为人知的是其 1971 年的巨著《熵定律与经济过程》，他在书中论证了所有自然资源在投入经济活动使用时都会发生不可逆的退化。作为经济学先驱和范式奠基人，乔治斯库-罗根的工作具有决定性意义……
There’s also almost the entire economics-related work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. From his Wikipedia page: > 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…
> His main idea, exposed in The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971), was that economic organisation is a continuation of biological organisation. Why? Because all machines are necessarily made of materials and use energy, and because all labour involves our biological…
……20世纪最重要的著作之一。5. 他提出了这句格言：“任何相信在有限星球上可以无限增长的人，要么是疯子，要么是经济学家。” 6. 乔治斯库-罗根的《熵定律与经济过程》极其出色，但也出了名的晦涩难懂。依然推荐阅读。这部作品在很多方面与弗雷德里克·索迪的研究很相似，尽管 G-R 并没有引用他的成果，参见：《财富、虚拟财富与债务》https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth,_Virtual_Wealth_and_Deb...……
…one of the most important books of the 20th century. 5. Formulator of the maxim, "anyone who believes in infinite growth on a finite planet is either mad or an economist". 6. Georgescu-Roegen's The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is excellent, but also famously impenetrable. Still recommended. The work is in many ways similar to Frederick Soddy's, though G-R doesn't cite this, see: Wealth, Virtual Wealth, and Debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth,_Virtual_Wealth_and_Deb...…
……说实话在这之前我没读过他的作品，但这次讨论和 HN 上最近的另一些帖子让我非常想开始读读乔治斯库-罗根的作品 [1]：> 他如今最广为人知的是其 1971 年的著作《熵定律与经济过程》，他在书中论证了所有自然资源在投入经济活动使用时都会发生不可逆的退化。作为经济学先驱和范式奠基人，乔治斯库-罗根的工作具有决定性意义……
…read him until now, to be honest, but this discussion and some other recent threads from HN make me really want to start reading Georgescu-Roegen's work [1]: > He is best known today for his 1971 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…
还有尼古拉斯·乔治斯库-罗根几乎所有的经济学相关著作。摘自他的 Wikipedia 页面：> 他如今最广为人知的是其 1971 年的巨著《熵定律与经济过程》，他在书中论证了所有自然资源在投入经济活动使用时都会发生不可逆的退化。作为经济学先驱和范式奠基人，乔治斯库-罗根的工作具有决定性意义……
There’s also almost the entire economics-related work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. From his Wikipedia page: > 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…
> 他在《熵定律与经济过程》（1971）中阐述的核心思想是：经济组织是生物组织的延续。为什么？因为所有机器必然由材料构成并消耗能量，而且所有劳动都涉及我们的生理……
> His main idea, exposed in The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971), was that economic organisation is a continuation of biological organisation. Why? Because all machines are necessarily made of materials and use energy, and because all labour involves our biological…