Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's (1906-94) most original contribution is
his bioeconomic theory. Based on a profound rethinking of the
foundations of neoclassical economics, bioeconomics represents a
completely new paradigm compared to both the standard and the
Marxist approach. Opening economics to natural sciences led
Georgescu-Roegen to point out the bio-physical limits to growth. In
the last years of his life, he also criticised the sustainable
development paradigm, but his criticism disappeared together with
him, only to re-emerge recently, thanks to the research on his
archiveand to the interest for his viewpoints within the framework
of 'degrowth'. In his last years Georgescu-Roegen intended to
publish a text entitled Bioeconomics, as an initial systematic
arrangement of this doctrine. This book aims to pick up that
project in two ways: first, collecting Goergescu-Roegen's main
contributions to bioeconomic theory, some still unpublished, and
tackling the principal nubs of the discipline particularly the
criticism of sustainable development. Second, recuperating that
full multidisciplinarity that represents the profoundest
characteristic of the bioeconomic theory. The concluding essay is
now considered a cornerstone of the degrowth perspective.
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