Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born in Constantsa, Romania, in 1906 and died in Nashville USA in 1994) was a Romanian economist. He is considered the father of bioeconomics and initiator of the degrowth movement, as well as one of the main inspirers of the Ecological Economics studies. His work centred on a trenchant critique of the basic assumptions of conventional economics based on endless economic growth, through the development of the alternative approach of bioeconomics in which the reduction of consumption and a degrowth[1] status are crucial prescriptions for the sustainability of the economic activity.
The first bibliography in German of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen by Valerio Verrea is now available in “Theoretiker der Globalisierung” by Matthias Middell and Ulf Engel (Ed.).
[1] The English word “degrowth” has been specifically invented by the scholars following the ideas of Georgescu-Roegen in order to identify a status where economy is driven by voluntary policies toward a reduction of production and consumption in order to achieve a long run sustainability. This concept differs from the approach of conventional economics which considers the opposite of growth, normally defines as “negative growth”, as an unwanted and problematic status.
