Download or read book Economics, Entropy and the Environment written by Thomas Randolph Beard and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a critical review of the work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen in conventional economics, environmental economics, and methodology. Presents a brief biographical sketch, then reviews his methodology and evaluates his contributions to the field. Particular attention is paid to the role of thermodynamics in his economics, with an economist's primer on thermodynamics and description of the role thermodynamics plays in his work. A final chapter describes bioeconomics as a way to integrate many of his views. Beard teaches economics at Auburn University. Lozada teaches economics at the University of Utah. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR