The historical error of economic science: a rescue of Georgescu-Roegen’s work
This essay makes a historical resumption of the work of the Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, considered one of the mentors of the Ecological Economics but forgotten in his time. By using a bibliographical reference and starting from a critical analysis of the Neoclassical Economics conc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/65881 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufpr.br/made/article/view/65881 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | ecological economics natural resources energy neoclassical economics economia ecológica recursos naturais energia economia neoclássica |
| Sumario: | This essay makes a historical resumption of the work of the Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, considered one of the mentors of the Ecological Economics but forgotten in his time. By using a bibliographical reference and starting from a critical analysis of the Neoclassical Economics conception, it is maintained that the errors of the economic mainstream are due to a myopic view on the use of the natural resources, an error in the approach of the use of the production factor nature (N). Roegen noticed this in the 1960s, but orthodox economists never took into account. Thus this error grounded a whole scientific school, originating a collective analytic "myopia" of its followers. This is a partial analysis of Georgescu-Roegen’s works, the "teacher of teachers", and a provocative challenge to other researchers who may want to oppose the perspective defended here. |
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