Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- NOTE ON THE CONTENTS OF THE VOLUME -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART I. INTRODUCTION: SOME ORIENTATION ISSUES IN ECONOMICS -- ONE. SCIENCE: A BRIEF EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS -- TWO. CONCEPTS, NUMBERS, AND QUALITY -- THREE. SOME OBJECT LESSONS FROM PHYSICS --...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I Science: A Brief Evolutionary Analysis -- CHAPTER II Science, Arithmomorphism, and Dialectics -- CHAPTER III Change, Quality, and Thought -- CHAPTER IV Measure, Size, and Sameness: Some Object Lessons from Physics -- CHAPTER V...

This extraordinary book provides a critical review of the work of Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen in conventional economics, environmental economics and methodology. Particular attention is paid to the role of thermodynamics in Georgesçu-Roegen's economics

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was described by Paul Samuelson as 'an economist's economist'. This book honors him by discussing his theories on a wide range of issues but particularly on environmental and energy economics. It is a dynamic tribute which extends his work to address the problems the...