The study and comprehension of institutions – viewed as written and unwritten constraints (rules) initiated by people to create and improve human interaction – represents the key to understand the success (and failure) of contemporary economies and societies. The framework inspired by...

The name of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen has been associated with a new paradigm, a new way of thinking. Briefly, the main elements of the Roegenian intellectual matrix are: the entire theoretical and argumentative construction is subordinated to the general perspective, to the system; economics is...

Although exceptionally endowed for mathematics which he comprehended and used extensively, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen has considered that the dialectical method is more suitable than arithmomorphism for social sciences and especially for economics. In order to support this idea, this paper brings...