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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was born in Constanza, Romania, in 1906. He studied mathematics, statistics and economics in Bucharest, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at University College, London. He was Professor of Statistics at the University of Bucharest and visiting fellow at Harvard. Before and during the Second World War he held positions in the Romanian government. After the war he settled down in the United States, where he became Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University (Dragan and Demetrescu, 1986, 1991: pp. 6–7). Georgescu-Roegen referred to Menger only in connection with the hierarchy of wants and on a few other points. Nevertheless, it is clear that Menger preceded him in various respects. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen elaborated Carl Menger’s thought in a creative and synthetic way, also taking notice of the idea of “ordered systems”, put forward by systems-oriented authors like Gustav Schmoller.
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Krabbe, J.J. (1996). Georgescu-Roegen’s “Bioeconomics”. In: Historicism and Organicism in Economics: The Evolution of Thought. Ecology, Economy & Environment, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1689-0_11
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