This book connects Georgescu-Roegen's earlier work such as consumer choice theory and a critique of Leontief's dynamic model, with his later ambitious attempt to reformulate the economic process as 'bioeconomics'

1. The red pill -- 2. The process of demographic change : the importance of multi-scale and multi-level analysis -- 3. Going beyond economic energy intensity and environmental Kuznets Curves : combining extensive and intensive variables -- 4. The quality of quantitative analyses for governance :...

The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the...