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In continental Europe, Georgescu and his work gained influence from the 1970s. When Georgescu delivered a lecture at the University of Geneva in 1974, he made a lasting impression on French historian and philosopher Jacques Grinevald.[2]: 15f The ensuing cooperation and friendship between the two resulted in the French translation of a selection of Georgescu's articles entitled Demain la décroissance: Entropie – Écologie – Économie ('Tomorrow, the Decline: Entropy – Ecology – Economy'), published in 1979.[3] [note 1] Similar to his involvement with the Club of Rome (see above), Georgescu's pointed and polemical article on Energy and Economic Myths came to play a crucial role in the dissemination of his views among the later followers of the degrowth movement.[4] [5]: 544 In the 1980s, Georgescu met and befriended Catalan agricultural economist and historian of economic thought Juan Martínez-Alier, who would soon after become a driving force in the formation of both the International Society for Ecological Economics and the degrowth movement.[6]: 307–310 [7]: 2 Since the degrowth movement formed in France and Italy in the early 2000s, leading French champion of the movement Serge Latouche has credited Georgescu for being a 'main theoretical source of degrowth.'[8]: 13–16 Likewise, Italian degrowth theorist Mauro Bonaiuti has stated that Georgescu's work is considered 'one of the analytical cornerstones of the degrowth perspective.'[9]: xi
Notes
- ^ The translation of the French term décroissance has developed over time. An account of the politics and semantics involved in the development is provided here.
References
- ^ Martínez-Alier, Juan (1987). Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0631171460.
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Grinevald, Jacques [in French] (2008). "Introduction to Georgescu-Roegen and Degrowth". In Flipo, Fabrice; Schneider, François, eds. [in French] (eds.). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (PDF contains all conference proceedings). Paris. pp. 14–17.
{{cite book}}:|editor2-first=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - ^ Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1995) [1979]. Grinevald, Jacques [in French]; Rens, Ivo [in French] (eds.). La Décroissance: Entropie – Écologie – Économie (PDF contains full book) (2nd ed.). Paris: Sang de la terre.
- ^ Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1975). "Energy and Economic Myths" (PDF). Southern Economic Journal. 41 (3). Tennessee: Southern Economic Association: 347–381. doi:10.2307/1056148.
- ^ Kerschner, Christian (2010). "Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy" (PDF). Journal of Cleaner Production. 18. Amsterdam: Elsevier: 544–551. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.10.019.
- ^ Røpke, Inge (2004). "The early history of modern ecological economics" (PDF). Ecological Economics. 50. Amsterdam: Elsevier: 293–314. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.02.012.
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Flipo, Fabrice; Schneider, François [in French], eds. (2008). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (PDF contains all conference proceedings). Paris.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Latouche, Serge (2009) [2007]. Farewell to Growth (PDF contains full book). Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745646169.
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Bonaiuti, Mauro, ed. (2011). From Bioeconomics to Degrowth: Georgescu-Roegen's "New Economics" in eight essays (PDF contains only the first 16 pages of the introductory chapter of the book). London: Routledge. ISBN 0203830415.
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